Tag: Hugo Moyano

• Tuesday, March 6th 2012 - 05:36 UTC

  Argentine organized labour begs CFK “not to push them to a general strike”

  

  Argentina’s organized labour CGT leader Hugo Moyano, questioned the administration of President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, over the lack of progress in the salaries collective bargaining talks and warned that he hopes “they don’t push him into a general strike”.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:39 UTC

  Union leader defies Cristina Fernandez: Moyano fears nobody and only bends before God

  

  The head of Argentina’s organized labour confederation, CGT, Hugo Moyano, asked the Government of President Cristina Fernandez to say whether they are going to accept their demands included in the collective bargaining talks or not, after warning that he “fears nobody” and that he only “bends before God.”

• Tuesday, February 14th 2012 - 20:39 UTC

  Argentine transport union promises to boycott all English and UK convenience flag vessels

  

  The Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers, CATT announced Monday a boycott against all those “English vessels” that call in any port of the country to protest the UK “militaristic pretensions” in the Malvinas Islands and South Atlantic.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 06:04 UTC

  Moyano tells the government: no strikes planned, so far…but things could change

  

  The head of Argentina’s organized labour CGT umbrella unions’ boss Hugo Moyano broke his silence to state his relationship with the Argentine government is “suspended” but dismissed for the time being, the possibility of staging a national strike.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 22:54 UTC

  CFK warns corporations have “made a lot of money”: don’t forget workers’ share

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández ruled out that the Government is planning to set a ceiling on this year’s collective bargaining and said that unions must “carry on with their salary negotiations freely by taking corporate profit into account.” She announced, however, the creation of a committee in order to follow them closely.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 05:24 UTC

  Argentine government and organized labour clash in first day of a week of conflicts

  

  The Argentine government as was anticipated by organized labour woke on Monday to the first day of a week of conflicts over salary and work conditions, taking as the leading case for the struggle the Argentine post office and its distribution fleet.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  Argentine organized labour on the war path anticipates ‘many conflicts’ in salary negotiations round

  

  Argentine organized labour, CGT, sent over the week end strong messages to the government of President Cristina Fernandez a day after their leader Hugo Moyano in a comeback speech called government official pre-programmed ‘teacher’s pets” and anticipated a complicated round of salary negotiation with many ‘possible conflicts’.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 20:17 UTC

  Inflation haunts Argentine government and organized labour relations

  

  All bridges with the government are not broken, said a representative from Argentina’s powerful organized labour adding he expected relations will improve since both union and business leaders “know how far they can go” when it comes to collective bargaining.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2012 - 06:41 UTC

  Argentine government and Moyano try to set ground rules for future relationship

  

  In another round of the ongoing battle between the Argentina government and the leader of organized labour Hugo Moyano, Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo stated that “if the union leaders are really representatives of the working class, there is no possibility of a divorce between the CGT Labour Confederation and the national government”.

• Friday, December 23rd 2011 - 04:38 UTC

  Relation of organized labour with Argentine government, “suspended, not broken”

  

  Argentina’s CGT Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano stated on Thursday that, “our relationship with the Government is not broken, just suspended as the President (Cristina Fernandez) wishes,” during a press meeting with international news correspondents.