By Luz y Fuerza de Mar del Plata Trade Union The national government, through the Minister of Finance, Nicolás Dujovne, and the President of the Central Bank, Federico Sturzenegger, announced yesterday the agreement reached with the Internationa... Read more
As part of the 107 Annual Assembly of the International Labor Organization (ILO) which took place in Geneva, both Pablo Micheli, General Secretary of the CTA Autónoma (CTAA) and José Rigane Deputy Secretary of the CTAA, met with Karen Curtis, Ch... Read more
By José Rigane* Fast for business, the Minister of Energy of the Nation, Juan José Aranguren, met on Tuesday, May 8 (the same day President Mauricio Macri announced that he is going to request a loan from the IMF) with oil companies Shell, PAE a... Read more
The CTA Autónoma (CTA-A) rejects the decision announced by President Mauricio Macri to resort to financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the excuse of getting the country’s course afloat. We reaffirm once again our certai... Read more
By José Rigane* Behind every bank run there is a business going on. The government, far from trying to avoid it, encourages financial speculation (called “timba financiera” in Argentina) driving this economic model. There are some “clever” peopl... Read more
By José Rigane* In Argentina there is a lot of talk about utility prices and subsidies, but very little is being said about privatized companies, their profits and whether we want them to continue to make huge profits out of the management of pu... Read more
By José Rigane Tuesday, April 10, 2018 will be marked as the date on which, after 18 years of struggle and claims, the Federation of Energy Workers of Argentina (FeTERA), obtained its trade union status. On that day, Chamber V of the National Ch... Read more
By Jose Rigane* In a silent way and without any advertisement the government is dismantling and selling YPF. Last Tuesday the Argentine state-owned oil company YPF took another sad step towards a new privatization (or a deepening of the extensiv... Read more
On Saturday, March 17, the CTA Autónoma (CTA-A) carried out its Ordinary and Extraordinary National Congress at the Villa Marista complex in the city of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires. Under the motto “UNITY is the way”, and with the pr... Read more
Thousands of union members, workers in general, human rights groups, social movements, pensioners and citizens took over the 9 de Julio Avenue in the city of Buenos Aires in a protest against President Mauricio Macri’s neoliberal reforms, state... Read more
