*Turnstiles free metro delegates reject raising fares in the service
*Workers oppose bills passed by Congress
*Different Unions set to join National Strike on Thursday
*Workers oppose bills passed by Congress
*Different Unions set to join National Strike on Thursday
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00:00 In this context, members of the Argentinian Confederation of Transport Workers held rallies
00:04 at their workplaces in order to reject the measures applied by the government and in
00:09 the face of the FAFSA sanction that the lawmakers gave to the package of laws among which the
00:14 income tax is included.
00:19 Through informative assemblies, railway, aeronautical, maritime and underground workers led a day
00:26 of rejection to the measures of the national executive.
00:32 We had a national plenary meeting of the Transport Confederation where there was a paramount
00:36 debate on the domestic adjustment taking place, the upturn in fares, the income tax, the DNU
00:46 that the government is willing to sign.
00:48 So we decided that before the strike all the transport unions ought to take a measure which
00:52 each union can do as they wish, with no collaboration or like us today, with the opening of the
01:01 turnstiles or like the truck drivers last evening to stop the collection of garbage
01:06 or like the air navigators to go on strike in every city.
01:12 Under the announcement of free pass, turnstile free metro delegates opened for two hours
01:17 the accesses to the underground terminals in repudiation of raising fares in the service.
01:24 Transport in ten days is going to ramp up by 600%, that is in Buenos Aires city, which
01:29 has the particularity that every day four million people come to work through here.
01:33 The headers where the railways are combined with the means of transport, the buses outside
01:40 and the metros inside.
01:42 These people come for two or three trips.
01:44 Imagine what they'll have to pay.
01:46 And being the cheapest, we are now one of the most expensive metros in the world.
01:52 It has to do with the logic that the president of the republic uses.
01:56 Everything is business, that is to say, there are no public services.
02:00 There is nothing that guarantees the collective welfare.
02:03 They oppose the measures of the executive branch, the bills that have been passed by
02:09 the congress, and demand respect for the parity ones, among others.
02:20 We are further holding this day of protest against the possibility of reincorporating
02:24 the income tax.
02:25 We said that work is not profit.
02:27 Today we are getting ready for the outstanding strike to take place on May the 9th.
02:36 We are convinced that it will be a very strong strike where the working class will express
02:43 itself strongly against all these policies that the government of Javier Milet is pursuing.
02:54 The different unions in the sector are preparing to join the general and national strike next
02:59 Thursday, a day on which there will be no public transport services.