The Government of Javier Milei will move forward with million-dollar fines against the transport unions La Fraternidad and the Unión Tramviarios Automotor (UTA) after determining that both organizations failed to comply with the current mandatory conciliation and participated in the national strike called by the CGT in the past February 19th.
As it transpired, the economic sanctions being applied by the libertarian administration reach figures of great magnitude: the union that represents locomotive drivers should face a fine of close to 21 billion pesos, while the union of bus drivers could receive a penalty of around 70 billion pesos.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) expressed their rejection of the official initiative.
The labor union was victimized and maintained that the decision to sanction transport unions responds, according to them, to an act of “political and trade union persecution”.
The sanction against unions
The measure was taken after the Secretary of Labor, led by Julio Cordero, verified that both unions disobeyed mandatory conciliation during the strike of February 19, which had an estimated economic cost of 575 million dollars
for Argentina.After verifying the non-compliance, the agency initiated the corresponding administrative summaries to move forward with the sanctions.
