Buenos Aires, November 25 (NA) – Fractions of the Workers' Central (CTA) and the Autonomous will mobilize this Wednesday towards the Secretariat of Labor, led by Julio Cordero, demanding a minimum, vital, and mobile salary "above the poverty line".
In statements to the Argentine News Agency, the general secretary of CTA-Autonomous, Hugo 'Cachorro' Godoy, stated that the call made by the Government for the Minimum, Vital, and Mobile Salary Council "should have been made three months ago".
"From the CTA we made a judicial presentation and we had to force the Executive Branch through the Justice system, to comply with its responsibility of reviewing the value of the Minimum, Vital, and Mobile Salary, something they do not want to do and want to keep it flat, because with it they freeze the entire income economy, both social programs and collective bargaining discussions," he said.
He also indicated that the situation also affects workers who have no representation, "and they are not few," and who are governed only by the value and variation of the Minimum Salary, which is currently 322,200 pesos, "almost half of what is needed for a food basket to eat".
Furthermore, Godoy insisted that the Government's "intention is to continue pushing down" the value of the salary, and for that reason, the decision taken by the CTA is to mobilize towards the Secretariat of Labor.
"We will participate in the virtual meeting, but the main leaders will be on the streets," he added.
"When we made this presentation to the Justice system, it was to not allow this to happen in a trivial way and to demand that the Government comply with its duty, because for us the Minimum, Vital, and Mobile Salary Council is a tripartite institution, State, employers, and workers, that must function at full capacity and must guarantee an income above the poverty level in Argentina," he concluded.
He affirmed that "obviously this is not the Government's decision, much less that of the businessmen who have been acting in tandem so that the officialism continues to decide by decree the value of the minimum, vital, and mobile salary".
