Argentine unions anticipate marches and protests for next March
Argentina’s powerful organized labour even divided have agreed that the recent rise in the income tax floor announced by the government of President Cristina Fernandez is ‘not enough’ and industrial action is anticipated as soon as next March, when full activity resumes in Argentina following summer holidays.
The head of the CTA umbrella union, Pablo Micheli, and the secretary general of the Court workers union, Julio Piumato, agreed that the increase in the income tax floor is insufficient and announced a joint street protest for March.
Micheli pointed out that “no one can say that a 20% hike meets all the expectations of the average workers”, arguing that if workers who paid an income tax in 2012 would also have to pay it this year.
“We could say that our strikes, demonstrations and demands managed to obtain that 20%. Had we done nothing, we wouldn’t have gotten anything,” Micheli said after he announced the new protests.
The union leader insisted this is “not a real raise”, for which the CGT and the CTA organizations were planning on taking it to the streets.
“(Hugo) Moyano and I agreed to talk again because we’re again thinking of going back to the streets. We still don’t know whether it will be a demonstration or a march, but we will be there protesting because this isn’t a raise,” he emphasized.
“We’re losing in broad daylight,” he said regarding the Government’s decision. “What will await us once the economy stops doing as well as it’s doing now?” he concluded.
Piumato is a member of the anti-government CGT umbrella union run by Hugo Moyano and complained that “the same people are going to pay income tax as last year,” despite the increase in the income tax floor.
“We were aspiring to a 50% increase, because last year the wage increase was hardly noticed. That’s why a 20% increase is unacceptable.”
“Our salary is not income tax. The fact that the balancing of this tax is completely out of date puts pressure on the company and on the worker,” Piumato added.
The union leader speaking to a local radio station in Buenos Aires said that “we have to take into account certain factors like renting. A worker that earns 7500 pesos who is affected by paying income taxes and who has to pay for renting will never be able to access a mortgage.”
“The government is not willing to change the tributary system, which puts pressure on wages and more humble sectors”.
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or so the song says
hahaha
to coincide with the FALKLAND referendum
vicious cycle
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.” [...]
“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
Sugar has gone up 60% yoy. I wish I had it in my retirement account!
haha
Does he mean 2013 or 2014.
Mmm
And is that girl in the next picture one of his member’s lol
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Dollar just reached 8 pesos
I would love to see what they have to say about this.... I would love to see them try and put a positive spin on this.
And Tito The Clown Troll gives such a good show.
TTT has probably had to sell his computer to buy food. I understand that La Campora aren't paying nearly as well as they used to...;)
But you are right, the usual trolls will be on here desperately trying to distract the thread or calling the unions traitors.
Like ostriches they bury their heads in the sand and hope all the bad stuff will magically go away.
they come back with horse meat,
my my
hoy the desperate bully is crumbling .lol.
“Industry insiders said horse meat from Holland was likely to have been imported from Argentina or Brazil. ”
www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9812327/Horse-meat-in-supermarket-burgers-linked-to-Dutch-suppliers.html
I see Argentina produces a lot of horse meat
www.seriousrankings.com/top-10-horse-meat-producing-countries/
This time disguised as Julie the nose .lol.
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don't like to hear the facts. His UK PM David Ca-Moron has the choice to stop diplomatic relations with the SA country, but......mmmmmm
the britons don't have nothing else to do!...Bloody rubbish english poeple!
This is Julio the big penis ,
penile dementure you mean .
The UK has a 2 trillon dollars debt,
riots like the one on 8/2011
royals scandals every 3 months
a british woman sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug charges
a big recession
unemployment
homeless
beggers
The brits have to accept the fact that they cannot resolve their own
problems,
so
why to comment on the argentine economy?
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