The Supreme Court of Justice decided Thursday that Mauricio Macri’s government must hold public hearings before cutting energy subsidies and hiking residential utility rates. Both the CTA Autónoma and the CTA de los Trabajadores celebrate this r... Read more
Article by José Rigane* Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice annulled today the increase in residential natural-gas prices applied by Mauricio Macri’s government earlier this year. This was an eagerly awaited measure, given that, all this time,... Read more
By José Rigane* Economic downturn; increasing unemployment, inflation and devaluation; rate hikes of gas, electricity and water; a rising cost of living and increase in the price of the basic basket, rent, fuels and transport; the demand to chan... Read more
The debate “Discutamos la crisis energética entre trabajadores y usuarios” (Workers and costumers discuss the energy crisis) took place in the City of Buenos Aires at the offices of the CTA-A Capital Regional Centro. The key speakers were Gabrie... Read more
“Not only we need to deal with the rate hikes, we must also discuss the issues of substance”, said José Rigane, Secretary General of FeTERA and Deputy Secretary General of the CTA Autónoma, in an interview with “FM De la Calle” radio station. He... Read more
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Around 5000 people gathered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, to protest the electricity price hike in the Province of Buenos Aires. The demonstration took place as the public hearing in Estado Minella, in the same city, was developing. Pablo Micheli... Read more
By Gabriel Martínez, Secretary of Organization, FeTERA – CTA Autónoma Power cuts in Buenos Aires City and in the Province of Buenos Aires are consequence of the looting of public services at the hands of private companies which act without... Read more
Secretary General of Luz y Fuerza Mar del Plata, and of the Federation of Energy Workers of the Argentine Republic (FeTERA) and Deputy Secretary of the CTA Autónoma, José Rigane, participated in the debate&lecture “Tarifazos y Crisis Energét... Read more
In an interview with “Estación Sur”, a radio station in Catamarca, Argentina, Gabriel Martínez, Secretary of Organization of the Federation of Energy Workers of the Argentine Republic (FeTERA) analized the protests against the rate hikes that to... Read more
Thousands of people throughout Argentina took to the streets on Thursday to protest against the gas, water and electricity steep rate hike instituted by Mauricio Macri’s administration. Honking horns, banging pots (cacerolazo), blowing whistles,... Read more