Global Courant 2023-05-04 19:54:46
Two of the routes are interrupted for three hours this Thursday, May 4, due to a protest by the metro delegates.
The subway service will be interrupted this Thursday, after a new strike launched by the metro delegates. This time, it will affect lines A and C, between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
This was reported by the Subway and Premetro Workers Union Association, which also detailed that between 12 and 1 pm the turnstiles will be raised at the head of those terminals.
The metro delegates demand the opening of the joint table to discuss their demands for two francs and the reduction of the working week to try to mitigate exposure to asbestos.
The communiqué of the metro delegates.
“We regret the inconvenience this may cause to the user public,” they remarked in the newsletter signed by the union’s general secretary, Roberto Pianelli, and the assistant secretary, Néstor Segovia.
Meanwhile, Emova -the Buenos Aires subway concessionaire- reiterated that today’s action will affect “more than 290,000 users.”
“The reduction of the weekly shift is unfeasible without affecting the operating activities of the Subte network. There is no precedent in Latin America and the world of a weekly shift like the one that the AGTSyP is demanding,” they added.
They reiterated that “the more than 2,500 measurements carried out on air quality in all subway work areas yield results considered adequate for health.”
And they assured that “active work is being done on a de-bestization plan in continuity with the process that began more than 4 years ago” through “an interdisciplinary table in which trade union entities also participate.”
Emova stressed that “the day of subway workers in Argentina is one of the smallest in the world.” And he argued: “Buenos Aires currently has 6 daily hours, 36 weekly hours; London 7 daily hours, 42 weekly; New York 8.7 daily hours, 43 weekly; Madrid 7.5 daily hours, 37.5 weekly hours; Santiago de Chile, 8, 42 weekly ; Lima 8 hours a day, 48 a week, and Rio de Janeiro, 8 hours a day, 40 a week”.
A repeating measure
The claim of the metro delegates is not new and the measure of force announced for this Thursday is part of a fight plan that includes staggered service cuts.
It is already the ninth measure of force by the subway workers and marks an escalation in the conflict. Up to now, the service cuts were for two hours, but the conflict has escalated since the end of March.
Despite the fact that there were meetings between the parties, the agreement seems to be far from materializing. As Clarín was able to learn from sources in the sector, both from the company and from Sbase, which depends on the Buenos Aires government, there is a predisposition to negotiate the reduction from six to five days, but in exchange for maintaining the 36 hours per week.
