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Down with Milei's slave labor reform What do they want to do? A system of banked hours where they can force you to work 4 hours one day and 12 the next, extending the workday and paying only the regular overtime rate. They want us to be just another machine, available whenever they want, disrupting our lives and those of our families. They want to eliminate collective bargaining agreements by trade , replacing them with company-level contracts. They'll be able to pay severance in installments and cap the amount . They'll be able to split our vacations and schedule them whenever they want. They want salary increases based on "productivity" or "efficiency," and they want us to work ourselves to the bone just to make ends meet. They want to dismantle the rights we collectively won through our struggle. They want to turn us into "individuals," so that if we improve anything, it's only through the extreme sacrifice of each individual comrade, not through unity as a working class. To impose this, they need to severely restrict the right to strike . With the trap of "essential" or "crucial" jobs, they intend to strip you of even the most basic right to defend yourself, as in healthcare and education. But also in services and industry. Some CGT leaders say this is the responsibility of "the people who voted for Milei." False! Nobody voted in favor of any labor reform in the last elections. Enough with the excuses: unions have to defend all the gains and rights of everyone, regardless of who they voted for on October 26th. If Milei won, it was due to blackmail from Trump and the IMF, with the support of the CGT, which allowed the austerity measures to pass, and the CTA, which verbally opposed them but did everything possible to prevent any serious struggle. Therefore, Milei doesn't have the power to impose his plan without the collaboration of the union leadership. The governors and Peronist factions like Jaldo (Tucumán) have already said they will negotiate the counter-reform. In other words, they don't have a plan very different from the government and the IMF. They're sellouts. How to deal with it? A large part of the union leadership plans to do what they always do: nothing. That's why the CGT continues its backroom dealings at the May Council. Do they expect us to trust the governors' representatives? The ones who already agreed to the Basic Law? There are unions affiliated with the CGT and CTA that criticize the reform. The big question is: what are they going to do? They should already be calling assemblies and setting a date for a first, nationwide, and unified strike. From the class-conscious groups, we believe that the only way to stop such an attack is to mobilize the entire working class, with a general strike and a plan of action . But we will have to impose these measures , with the strength and unity of all of us who already want to resist the reform. Through joint actions, united marches, and regional or national coordinating bodies. If we put the power of the working class into motion, the one that moves the country, we can move towards a general strike, of the employed, the unemployed and the struggle movements , that will bring down the slave reform and the entire plan of Milei and economic power. We are not alone. We have the strength of those who have been fighting for years: retirees, youth, and the student movement defending public universities and education; the women's and LGBTQ+ movements that have taken to the streets; socio-environmental organizations and our Indigenous peoples fighting against extractivism; intellectuals and artists who refuse to be silenced; those facing attacks and layoffs (Garrahan, Secco, Georgalos, teachers, social organizations, etc.). And the combative and left-wing sectors , who since December 20, 2023, have stood firm against the government's policies, accompanied by the only representatives who are present at every protest: Myriam Bregman, Nicolás del Caño, and the entire Left Front caucus. There is another way to create jobs for everyone, with rights. In these struggles, let's propose that there's another way: reducing the workday (6 hours, 5 days a week) to distribute those hours until everyone works, with full rights. Implementing this in large companies could immediately generate 1 million jobs. With a salary that covers the cost of living. With permanent positions for contract workers, self-employed workers, and informal workers. With a public works plan that builds the schools, hospitals, and parks we need, and creates jobs under collective bargaining agreements. By suspending debt payments to generate these resources. It can be done, but we have to challenge their interests, not ours. In the heat of this struggle, we must reclaim our organizations: the delegates' bodies, the internal commissions, and the unions. But to impose our solution, we must take another step. The Peronist Party (PJ) is responsible for Milei's rise to power and his austerity measures, and it also represents a sector of the business class. We, the workers, must have a voice in national politics by building our own political organization: a working-class party without bosses or bureaucrats , that fights for a program that makes the powerful and the IMF pay for the crisis. Let's get to work! https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Abajo-la-reforma-laboral-esclavista-de-Milei-el-FMI-y-los-empresarios? Back Movement of Class-Based Groups (independent and PTS workers, whose leaders are Myriam Bregman, Nicolás de Caño, Alejandro Vilca, Christian Castillo and hundreds of class-based leaders from more than 60 unions, such as Laura Cano (Health), Andrés Blanco (Ceramic Workers), Nathalia Seligra, Paula Akerfeld, Virginia Pescarmona, Laura Vilches and Yazmín Muñoz (Teachers), Florencia Saracho (Telephone Workers), Claudio Dellecarbonara (Subway Workers), Raúl Godoy, Juan Contrisciani (Shipyard Workers), Víctor Ottoboni (Tire Workers), Marcelo Ortega and Vanina Mancuso (MadyGraf), Luciano Corradi (Aeronautical Workers), Ariel Mancuso (Railway Workers), Javier Hermosilla and Stella Cabral (Food Workers), among many others. |
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