The government toughens its position before the CGT: it downplays the impact of the strike and is committed to exposing the unions

After a one-day general strike, the government decided to remain indifferent, without making a last-minute call to the CGT chiefs or making an urgent call to improve the relationship. He maintained his tough stance despite threats from some leaders regarding new force measures of longer duration, even 36 hours duration. Instead, he doubled down on the stakes, and issued a series of strong messages to try to bring union members in line with public opinion.

Xavier Miley’s advisers insist that strikes and protests promoted by the central office do not weaken the government, but benefit it. They start from the premise that there is a difference between generalized support for demands – which they accept is support – and support for the conduct of coercive measures. “The percentage of positive image of unions is the worst in all sectors, including justice and police, it is impressive. There may be legitimacy to what they ask for, but they don’t have it,” a front-line aide to the president said from his office this afternoon. The city looked deserted and silent from the window.

In Casa Rosada they are convinced of this Pablo Moyano, Hector Derr and Carlos Acuña “They are doing them a favor” by stopping it, and he launched a campaign to increase it. For now, the only retaliation he took was the announcement that he would take the day off from state members who attended. But there were messages for the rest of society conference hall From and to Casa Rosada official network, Including the first President.

Miley posted a modified image of herself, showing her wearing a T-shirt “I do not stop”. And its communications experts worked on a report, which they presented with infographics on the President’s Office account, which show, according to their calculations, that the attack would cost the economy “more than US$500 million”. Besides, They compared the data to the basic basket so users could better understand the magnitude of the losses.

In the same sense, he accused union members of “extorting” workers who wanted to join by implementing the historic strategy of stopping transportation. “We remind you that Line 134 is still open to report extortion,” said spokesman Manuel Adorni. The first strike took place on January 24, when only a month and a half had passed in Miley’s tenure, at which time different officials were in charge of highlighting it, and which they repeated today.

Although the government minimizes the impact of the second general strike in five months of administration, they acknowledge that This has an impact on the image Miley tries to present to foreign investors, On which the recovery of the economy will ultimately depend once the limits of adjustment capacity are reached.

After Tesla’s owner, Elon MuskCalled for investment in the country, today the world’s leading media reflected a unstable situation in the country, Which can be repeated if there is no agreement. For example, Rubén “Polo” Sobrero, a representative of the Union Ferroviaria, gave this warning. ,I was also always critical of Alberto Fernandez’s management, which was a disaster, And also with Mauricio Macri. I always said that workers are being attacked. But now he jumped in and made the situation worse. If no response is received from this 24-hour strike, we will conduct a second strike of 36 hours.″He said while giving indirect threat.

Although in public he chose the strategy of showing himself on a war footing, beneath the surface there were some attempts at rapprochement with the unions, which in Balkars 50 he avoided, but kept, at all costs, under complete secrecy. Last week, the Interior Minister, Guillermo Francos, He said he would attempt to “deactivate” the measure, but his efforts, if they existed, were unsuccessful. Instead, the harshest conditions were imposed on the Allies, such as santiago caputo, Who believe that measures like today’s have no validity and are not sustainable.