PIT-CNT will receive $600,000 annually in state subsidies

The Broad Front union headquarters is partially financed with money from all Uruguayans.

Taxpayers pay extremely high taxes so that the current government can allocate them to the union headquarters, where a handful of union bureaucrats manage millions of pesos annually without oversight.

2025 Annual Subsidy Project

The Uruguayan Parliament is discussing a project to grant $600,000 annually to PIT-CNT, which supposedly will be allocated to the Documentation Center, Historical Archive, and Library of the headquarters. 

This state subsidy seeks, in theory, to preserve and disseminate the history of the labor movement.

The project was promoted by legislators from Frente Amplio (FA) and is still under debate in Parliament, but it is expected to be approved with the votes of the ruling party and the votes of the two deputies from Cabildo Abierto. 

A Hidden Subsidy

The excuse for giving $600,000 annually from all Uruguayans' taxes to the Broad Front union headquarters is, as mentioned, a historical archive project for the union headquarters' library, which is an outright lie. 

The money provided by the State will be used so that the union bureaucracy leading PIT-CNT can squander it without any oversight.

It is worth remembering that PIT-CNT has always refused to obtain legal status, so from a legal standpoint it doesn't exist, and there is no type of oversight over the money managed by the union bureaucrats.

The money received is squandered at the whim of the union chiefs without any oversight from anyone, neither the State nor the members who pay the monthly fee. 

Payment of Political Favors

From the Frente Amplio government, its union arm, which has always been PIT-CNT, is being financed by granting it taxpayers' money so that it can be squandered at the whim of the parasitic union bureaucracy, which also doesn't work since they are permanently on union leave.

This means that they collect their monthly salary with all benefits but never show up to work. 

More Political Favors

In 2019, during Tabaré Vázquez's second government, the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) allocated $200,000 of public funds to the Cuesta Duarte Institute (PIT-CNT's training arm). 

This money supposedly financed union courses and activities. 

In reality, it was a "gift" to the headquarters, but the MEC justified it as "support for popular education."

That money was spent at the whim of the union bureaucrats who never accounted for it.

It was a hidden subsidy from the left-wing government to the union bureaucracy. 

All paid for by Uruguayan taxpayers.

Chavista Financing

As is known, Marcelo Abdala traveled a few years ago to Caracas to applaud and embrace the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro.

In addition to praising the communist genocidal leader, Abdala said that he was invited by the Bolivarian Workers' Central, which was true.

What he concealed was that the aforementioned Central is an appendage of the Chavista government and has been financing PIT-CNT for many years, hence the support of Uruguayan union bureaucrats for Maduro's dictatorship.

PIT-CNT's finances are completely murky and opaque. They do not account to anyone, and the money they receive from the State and from their members is squandered with impunity.