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Ernesto Ludueña from the Trade Workers Union spoke again with the hosts of “No Te Duermas” about the current situation of trade and SMEs.
Ludueña. “The economic situation does not allow people’s consumption to be reactivated; trade remains in the same situation as we have been saying.” The loss of purchasing power means that sales are not rising.
“Today people are no longer consuming food, before we talked about clothing, footwear, I set parameters for that, but today people stop consuming food,” he said.
Asked if people no longer do their monthly shopping and choose to do it at the neighborhood Chinese store or the grocery store, he said: “The neighborhood Chinese store and small and medium-sized businesses are fed by wholesalers, so consumption goes down, the number of tons goes down.”
The closure of SME companies
“With this government, ten thousand SME, small and medium-sized companies have already closed.” Macri closed around twenty-five thousand in four years, but he was there for four years; here we have already had ten thousand, and we are in the eighth month,” he said.
“It is a bad parameter, the loss of purchasing power, the closure of businesses, job loss; six hundred thousand payroll accounts are no longer there,” he emphasized.
In reference to the layoffs at Bridgestone, the tire company said: “That is what is most widely known, but throughout the country, in all activities, the fall in job losses, due to staffing, there are permanent layoffs.”
The silence of the CGT
During the course of the interview, one of the hosts asked why the CGT is silent in the face of this situation, to which Ludueña said: “The CGT is preparing a strategy plan,” adding that “We are asking the CGT to convene all the regional meetings to analyze a plan of struggle, an action plan to move forward.”
“They are stipulating the date on which they are going to convene; but we understand that we should already be convened, that is why we have been working from the different regional meetings requesting them, see our documents, that we are on permanent alert and mobilization.”
“This marks a panorama; we are concerned about the situation that all the activities that make up the CGT regional meeting in La Matanza are going through,” he admitted. In the interview, Claudio Kapeller referred to the Pro statement in reference to what happened with the retirees, and the subsequent statement from the CGT, for which Ludueña said:
“This comes in coalition with the fact that the regional unions are fully active, fully dealing with the people’s problems.” We are the permanent complainants and we ask our national leadership to take a position and call us to resolve the action measure together.”.
Labor reform
Regarding labor reform, the interviewee stressed: “We have already made the presentation to the courts; in this case the courts stopped it, it is not applicable and it will continue to be discussed because this is not over; We have a precautionary measure filed in which we understand that it is the judicial route that can stop this.”
And he clarified: “We have to continue working with the legislative bodies to make them understand.” Here the loss of jobs has nothing to do with the labor contract law; by modifying the labor contract law, industries, companies cannot produce, there are no channels to continue producing, no matter how many laws there are, it will be a flexibilization, not a law.”
“This was not agreed upon with the labor movement, that is why we said that we are here to lend ourselves to dialogue for a labor modification, which modernizes the labor issue, but not an abolition of labor rights.”
Ending the interview, and expanding further on the subject, he added: “Here they want to abolish labor rights, they want slavery to return, twelve, fourteen year workdays, for workers to lose the bonus that is a share of the profits, the fifty-fifty; somehow we have to get there.”
“Today we have lost participation in the handling of Argentina’s product.” Workers have lost ground in their participation in the wealth of Argentina.”
“I always make a comparison; we had an average salary of a kilo of meat and today we are very far from that. We are with some of the organizations with a poverty wage, the value of a kilo of meat is the equivalent of one hour of work,” he concluded.
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