Over 1,600 trade union delegates from the United Trade Unions Front (FreSU) approved a ten-point union program focused on a dignified wage and wealth distribution this Friday. The national plenary, held on International Workers' Day, upheld the right to strike and foreshadowed a struggle plan. Union leaders criticized the Government and called to resist labor reforms.
The United Trade Unions Front (FreSU), comprising over 140 organizations from the three labor federations, held its first national plenary this Friday with more than 1,600 trade union delegates. The meeting approved the document “Unity, Struggle and Rebellion to Recover the Homeland”, addressing the crisis with real wage decline, labor precariousness, and growing inequality.
The first point demands a Minimum Vital and Mobile Wage of $2.802.755 for a worker without family dependents, covering food, housing, education, and other essentials. It includes general wage increases, free bargaining without caps, and equal pay for equal work. The program also calls for repealing regressive labor laws, defending collective agreements, and limiting outsourcing.
Abel Furlán, UOM general secretary, stated: “Never again from here to the future will workers walk in darkness. We have a clear Program, we know what we must defend for ourselves, our families, and our Homeland”. He anticipated expanding the front to build “a strike to say enough”.
ATE's Rodolfo Aguiar said: “There is only one way to defeat the labor reform, to bury it forever, and that is by not complying with it in the workplaces”. Oilseed Federation's Daniel Yofra noted the FreSU was formed “thinking of the struggle” against the Government and employers. The plenary backed La Fraternidad against a Labor Secretariat sanction, labeled as persecution.