Napoleon Gomez Urrutiapresident of the International Confederation of Workers (CIT), said that there is a slogan for reduce the strength of unionssince opposition senators want the union dues are voluntary and not mandatoryas provided in the statutes.
“What they seek is to reduce the strength of the unions, to end unionization and, with that, that the union organisms are weaker. That is what all businessmen in this country would like.that the unions do not have the strength and capacity, that they do not have a resistance fund,” he added.
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They have never been union leaders (legislators) and They don’t know what the unions stand forstood out during the Fourth Anniversary of said Central Obrera, which affiliates more than 200 unions, 20 national federations and more than one million workers, held in a theater in the Narvarte neighborhood.
“Unions respect workers, not special interests. They have their business chambers to defend their interests. Of course we are going to fight when the initiative arrives! Unions have every right, under their statutes, to collect union dues”, argued the union leader before sectional secretaries and workers.
Gómez Urrutia affirms that subcontracting persists
During the meeting, he admitted that labor outsourcing has not been eradicatedbecause the CIT estimates that there are 10 million workers under this modality, and only three million have been incorporated into the formality, according to data from the Ministry of Labor.
In a press conference at the end of the event, the senator also recalled the reform to prohibit the subcontracting of personnel, “what we have called a cancer that had been growing against the working class, that of labor simulation and abuses.”
“We keep moving forward. Some (employees) were fired, they had all the power to do it; and the worker without elements to defend himself, did not have a union.
“We are going to continue working with the CIT. Each union that affiliates with us, each federation or confederation, to ensure that the reforms to the law are respected. (If there are anomalies) that they report”. In the law there are, he specified, elements to impose sanctions.
