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Bus strike: disagreement persists and the meeting between the Government, businessmen and the union is extended - Infobae
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Paro de colectivos: persiste el desacuerdo y se extiende la reunión entre el Gobierno, los empresarios y el gremio
El encuentro se realiza este mediodía en la Secretaría de Trabajo. Rige una retención de tareas que afecta a la mayoría de las líneas de AMBA
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April 11, 2024
The meeting takes place at the Ministry of Labor. There is a retention of tasks that affects the majority of AMBA lines
By Eduardo Menegazzi
Several bus lines are on strike in the midst of a conflict between the chambers and the union (File photo: Adrián Escandar)
The national government is trying to get the bus chambers and the Automotive Tram Union (UTA) to negotiate a solution to the conflict that this Thursday keeps most of the lines that provide service in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires paralyzed.
Official sources confirmed before 9 a.m. to Infobae that the meeting will take place this afternoon at the Ministry of Labor, at the headquarters on Callao Avenue. And representatives from both sectors have already arrived at the place to begin the meeting. Luciano Fusaro, representing one of the Chambers, the AAETA, anticipated that “we are going to ask for a truce” and that “in the last few hours we have noticed a better willingness” on the part of the Government to lift the measure. “The conflict can continue,” he also warned.
This Thursday, bus drivers began a “withholding of tasks” until an increase of $250,000 that they have been demanding is deposited in their bank accounts. The measure creates complications for traveling and collapses other alternative transportation routes used by workers. Only around 70 lines operate.
According to what has emerged so far, the Government's intention is not to dictate mandatory conciliation but rather to have “a rapprochement between the parties.”
The union that groups the drivers indicated before the interruption of services occurred that they could be restored if the salary increase that initiated the claim is paid. They ask that the minimum wage be respected, which would be $987,000 - before it was 737,000 and they were paid a non-remunerative figure of $250,000 - and which the business sector maintains that they cannot afford.
In a meeting they had at the Ministry of Transportation, the businessmen received information from area officials that there will be no “reinforcement” of budget items , so, according to their numbers, they will not have the back to pay the increase. of almost 35% that the union demands for the drivers' salaries, which were deposited on Monday of this week.
The union will maintain the measure of force, unless the payment of pending salaries is charged (X @utaargentina)
At 250,000 pesos away, the main node of the conflict between the union and the companies appears. The UTA demands that the non-remunerative sum paid in February be incorporated into the March base.
The problem is that the business chambers, they say, do not receive from the government this month the subsidies to pay said sum since they maintain that their calculation is made on the approved parity which is $737,000 and that for March there is nothing signed , just a basis for negotiation.
The UTA ordered that its members make a “retention of tasks” in the companies until the payment of what had been agreed in February is made effective. Four of the five Chambers that bring together employers in the automotive transport sector, which bring together more than 400 lines that circulate through the AMBA, said yesterday in a statement that the union spreads "wrong" numbers and that it only "contributes to general confusion. It was signed by the Argentine Association of Automotive Transport Businessmen (AAETA), the Business Chamber of Passenger Motor Transport (CEAP), the Chamber of Transportation of the Province of Buenos Aires (CTPBA) and the Chamber of United Businessmen of Urban Passenger Transportation of Buenos Aires (CEUTUPBA).
Businessmen from the transportation chambers met with area officials on Tuesday and announced that they will not receive any more subsidies for the moment.
Until the situation is resolved, several transport lines that circulate through the AMBA adhered to the force measure. In this way, the groups 1, 2, 4, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 29, 32, 33, 34, 37, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 53, 55, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, 75, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 103, 105, 106, 109, 110, 113, 114, 118, 119, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129, 133, 136, 140, 143, 145, 148, 151, 152, 153, 154, 158, 159 , 160, 163, 166, 169, 172, 174, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 185, 193, 194 and 195 are not available.
Meanwhile, train and subway service is developing normally. But in the main railway terminals where many users combine their transfers with buses such as Constitución, Retiro and Plaza Miserere, there were long lines and delays due to the number of lines that do not circulate.
The business chambers maintain that “the sector between tariff and subsidy receives less money in real terms compared to last year, a deterioration to which many companies and SMEs in this country are not immune, even more so considering that we do not have the power to adjust the price of our activity, a power without which it is not possible to access claims that are impossible to fulfill without the due intervention of the enforcement authority in the matter: Between Rates + Subsidies, the Sector lost 24% of its income, per passenger transported, after one year".
