Buenos Aires, Nov 17 (NA) -- The CTA Autónoma today backed the general secretary of ATE National, Rodolfo Aguiar, after he was denounced by the Ministry of Security for alleged 'public threats against the constitutional order' two days before the first National Strike against the Labor Reform. For the CTA Autónoma, the actions of the portfolio still led by Patricia Bullrich are 'persecutory' and 'resort to intimidation mechanisms to try to discipline worker organizations'. 'We warn about the dangers involved in continuing with this country model where social protest becomes a crime and the defense of rights is punished with persecution and criminal charges,' they stated. 'We reaffirm our commitment to accompany, strengthen and sustain all necessary initiatives to face the infamous Labor Reform that the government wants to impose, whose only objective is to further precarious workers and pulverize historical conquests of the labor movement,' they concluded from the workers' central. 'This fact cannot be interpreted other than as a new attempt to criminalize social protest and judicialize the legitimate demands of the popular sectors,' they indicated, as learned by the Argentine News Agency. According to they warned, 'the use of the judicial apparatus to pursue union leaders and opponents constitutes a repeated practice of the Government, which seeks to install fear, demobilize and break the resistance in the face of a set of regressive policies that directly affect the labor rights and living conditions of millions of workers'. In this framework, the CTA Autónoma expressed its 'total solidarity and its most energetic support to Rodolfo Aguiar', while rejecting in 'categorical terms the government action'.
