The Front of the Buenos Aires Teaching Unit (FUDB), made up of 5 organizations, repudiated the “anti-union” statements of the former Buenos Aires Labor Minister of Cambiemos, Marcelo Villegas, and assured that his statements are “the clear expression of the anti-union practices applied at that stage” of the country, governed by Mauricio Macri.
“To state that ‘if I could have a Gestapo to end all the guilds I would’ is the clear expression of anti-union practicesof which the unions and their leadersthey were victims during that stage“noted an FUDB document.
For the guilds AMET, FEB, Sadop, Suteba and Udocba -which make up the FUDB- Villegas’s statements to businessmen are of “a unusual institutional gravity and demonstrate the intention of the ‘republican’ right to destroy the union organizations, legitimate representatives of the working class“.
The document added that “the Buenos Aires teacher unions They opposed in unity to the policies of adjustment and reduction of labor rights of the government of María Eugenia Vidal and, as a consequence, were spied on Y huntedTherefore, this procedure refers to old practices from the most sinister times in the country. “
“Is aberrant the allusion to the Gestapo. the secret police of the regime Nazi to control, persecute, torture and murder political opponents and the Jewish people, as a tool to annihilate union organizations. This is how these officials thought and operated in complicity with business and judicial groups“, he emphasized.
The Front demanded that each of those responsible be investigated until the situation is clarified, which represents “a clear threat to democracy“, he concluded.
The #FUDB declares its absolute repudiation of the words of the former Minister of Labor, Marcelo Villegas.#Gestapohttps://t.co/Ce4WTxvvNW
– Mirta Petrocini (@MirtaPetrocini) December 29, 2021
Light and force
To the manifestations of public repudiation of broad sectors of society were also added those of the Argentine Federation of Light and Power Workers (Fatlyf), led by Guillermo Moser, from where the position of the CGT before the complaints formulated against the former Buenos Aires Labor Minister of Together for Change, Marcelo Villegas; it demanded “legal and honest practices” and rejected “all kinds of undemocratic maneuvers”.
“The Fatlyf rejects emphatically any type of undemocratic practice and, especially, those that they attack the labor movement. That attitude should be judged and banished. The guild exercises defense of workers Luciferians across the country and makes comply with and respect the law and the rule of law“, said the leader.
A union statement added that this was a constant in “the darkest moments in national history, when the defense of those rights cost his life of Luciferianists, so the union will do it forever and, now, it demands justice, “he said.
Villegas, former head of the Buenos Aires labor portfolio during the management from former governor María Eugenia Vidal, he maintained in a video before businessmen who had wished to have “a Gestapo to end all the guilds”.
