Lorena Roqueta, candidate of Hay Otro Camino for the workers' order in the BPS election, loudly stated what many think and few dare to say. In an interview with Outsider, she affirmed: "Nowadays, no one represents non-unionized workers."
And she went further: "The structures of the PIT-CNT come out to attack me and tell me that I am wrong, but just looking at social media makes it clear that people are tired."
A list tailored for the union
The PIT-CNT is presenting itself again with its List 11, led by the current director for workers, Carlos Clavijo, a leader of the National Union of Metalworkers and Related Branches. He is accompanied by leaders from SUNCA, ATSS, FUECYS, and SINTEP.
List 11 itself presents its candidates as workers "with years of union activism and in the Social Security Commission of the PIT-CNT." That is to say: the representative of all workers in the BPS comes, once again, from the same place.
And what about the person working in a small shop, in a company without a union, in the countryside, or self-employed? That worker also contributes every month. But in the BPS board, no one listens to them.
What Roqueta proposes
Roqueta travels the country addressing concrete problems of people who are stuck in a process or who cannot access what they are entitled to. Her proposal is to strengthen the presence of the BPS outside Montevideo and change the criteria that currently harm those seeking access to benefits they generated with their own contributions.
