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Oilseed Workers' Chief Threatens Strike and Country-Wide Fire in Rosario

In Rosario, the general secretary of the Oilseed Workers' Federation, Daniel Yofra, announced the start of an indefinite strike, stating he will 'set the country on fire' if the government does not meet union demands. Unions have united for a massive demonstration against labor reform.


Oilseed Workers' Chief Threatens Strike and Country-Wide Fire in Rosario

The most forceful message was expressed in Rosario by the general secretary of the Federation of Oilseed and Cotton Gin Workers, Daniel Yofra. “We are going to set the country on fire through an indefinite strike, there is no other way,” Yofra stated. In a climate marked by low expectations of stopping the national government's project, Daniel Yofra stated that the territory of dispute at this time should not be Congress but the street. He then concluded personally that they have to set the country on fire if those conditions are not met.

This Tuesday, the 10th, unions from the Front of United Unions (FreSU), such as the UOM, Oilseed Workers, Port Workers, Pilots, Highway Workers, and other CGT unions, along with ATE and all the unions from the two CTAs, continued their struggle plan with a massive mobilization in Rosario. Prior to the march, they held a press conference and warned of an escalation of the conflict. There, they considered that an indefinite strike is the only solution to the conflict over the amendments being pushed by La Libertad Avanza (LLA) in Congress: “If not, this will never end.” Yofra maintained that unions must guarantee decent housing, health care, vacations, that the workers' children can go to college, “that they have four meals a day, that they can dress wherever they want, and that they have their own vehicle.” In this sense, he pointed out: “It cannot be that the grandparents are the vanguard of the working class.”

The leader of one of the main unions in the agribusiness sector was among the speakers at a press conference held in the early hours of the day at the local headquarters of the Metalworkers' Union (UOM). The struggle plan of the coalition of unions convened by the UOM, which adopted the name Front of United Unions (FreSU), carried out its second action with a large mobilization in the streets of the Santa Fe city of Rosario. Prior to the march, they held a press conference and warned of an escalation of the conflict.

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