The oil and cotton gin workers' union has called on 'oil and cotton gin workers to join the mobilizations and acts called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) at the Plaza de Mayo and throughout the country'. 'The national government has presented a Labor Reform project that aims to strengthen the position of employers and weaken that of those of us who work — they state in a communiqué. 'Each of the 191 articles in the government's project is dedicated to taking away our rights, preventing us from organizing, and stopping us from fighting. It also implies greater ease for employers to dismiss workers and lower severance pay for those who lose their jobs'. 'The third dimension of this offensive is multiple changes to the Labor Contract Law and other labor laws to generate greater discipline in the workplace — they warn — One of the most important is the creation of the 'hour bank', which breaks with the workday, forcing workers to work up to twelve hours a day whenever the employer decides, who will no longer have to pay overtime as such'. To conclude, they sentence: 'there is much more. Each of the 191 articles in the government's project is dedicated to taking away our rights, preventing us from organizing, and stopping us from fighting. It is time to defend everything we have achieved. Comrades, in the face of this brutal attack, we are calling for a National Strike'. Thus, the Oilseed Federation is the second union to announce a strike within the framework of the nationwide mobilizations this Thursday, December 18th, against the labor reform. ATE National also announced a 24-hour strike with a march, considering that, given the seriousness of the reform and the possibility of losing many labor rights, 'all conditions are in place to call for a general strike', in addition to highlighting that 'even the last comma of the labor reform is being written in the offices of Techint'. Furthermore, the 191 sections unanimously voted to mandate the National Leadership to define the possibility of carrying out surprise protests during the month of December. As soon as this government took office, it intended to refound the capital-labor relationship. The Federation of Oilseed and Cotton Gin Workers (FTCIODyARA) announced that it will begin a National Strike with an active stoppage and march starting at 00:00 on the upcoming Thursday, December 18th, against the regressive Labor Reform, within the framework of the mobilization to the Plaza de Mayo called for that day at 15:00 by the CGT, other trade union centers and combative left-wing unions, in rejection of the labor reform promoted by the government of Javier Milei. Therefore, its first objective is to modify collective bargaining, seeking to destroy activity collective agreements, favoring company-level agreements and company-level unions to fragment the working class. In the same vein, they seek to end the ultra-activity of collective agreements, they alert. 'To this is added the attempt to limit to the extreme the exercise of the right to strike, applying to almost all activities — including oilseed and cotton gin — the categories of 'essential services' and of 'transcendental importance', which implies that a minimum service of between 50% and 75% must be guaranteed. A de facto prohibition'. As a second serious point of the reform promoted by Milei's government, they highlight: 'the second level of attack consists in the creation of a Labor 'Assistance' Fund and the reduction of employer contributions to social security, measures that will generate a transfer of billions of dollars from the pockets of workers to private capital, and that will defund the pension system; that is: more hunger for retirees. And they specify: 'in the content of the project there are three levels of attack against our rights. It is time to defend everything we have achieved', they remark. Within the framework of the mobilization to the Plaza de Mayo called for this Thursday, December 18th at 15:00 by the CGT, other trade union centers and combative left-wing unions, in rejection of the Labor Reform promoted by the government of Javier Milei, the Federation of Oilseed and Cotton Gin Workers (FTCIODyARA) announced that it will begin a National Strike with an active stoppage and march starting at 00:00 on the upcoming Thursday, December 18th.
