Buenos Aires, December 10 (NA) – The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) will convene its Board of Directors at 12:00 PM this Thursday to express open rejection of the labor reform that the government is promoting for the extraordinary sessions, although without immediate strike measures or defined action plans for the short term. This was learned by the Argentine News Agency from union sources, who indicated that for now the central body will opt for more “institutional” actions, such as the visit of the triumvirate to Congress on Wednesday, rather than direct action against the labor reform. “There will be palace intrigue, but there will also be silence,” a source anticipated, so it is not ruled out that, in the end, the harder wing of the confederation ends up imposing some kind of action plan. “We believe that if a space needs to be created in which labor modernization is carried out, we have an instrument that is collective bargaining agreements,” he added. As reported by the Argentine News Agency, the government chose to avoid escalating a direct confrontation with unionism and will not include in the labor reform the item on restrictions for solidarity quotas that appeared in the original wording of the project promoted by the Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger. “It is a reform that aims to generate work. Everything that does not go in that direction will be left to be discussed later,” a heavyweight voice in the Executive branch summarized. According to what the Argentine News Agency learned from official sources, the details of the project will not contemplate the point that generated tension with the workers' center, which rejected the possibility from the beginning, and in a gesture of displeasure, it was absent through Gerardo Martínez from the last meeting of the Council of last Tuesday. #AgenciaNA: The Senate will await the sending of the government's project. The meeting was held in the office of the president of the peronist interblock, José Mayans, and was attended by his peers from the block Mariano Recalde, Alicia Kirchner, Jorge Capitanich and Martin Soria, as well as deputies and union leaders Vanesa Siley and Hugo Yasky, among others. After the meeting, Jerónimo reiterated that “there is no negotiation or exchange with the Government” and that the promoted project, which is not final, “is unilateral and by imposition.” Meanwhile, other sectors warn of a “radio silence.” The CGT triumvirate Jorge Sola, Cristian Jerónimo and Octavio Arguello convened the Board of Directors at the Azopardo headquarters, from where the bulk of the unionists will express a common position of rejection to the government's project. In the run-up to Thursday's meeting, the new leadership of the CGT, with the three triumvirs and the head of the UOCRA, Gerardo Martínez, held a meeting this Wednesday with peronist senators who committed to rejecting any reform, so they will work jointly between legislators, PJ governors, and union centers to prevent the progress of the labor reform. Is the labor reform being postponed?
