Guy Ryder, secrétaire général de la Confédération internationale syndicale "L'emploi doit rester la priorité des priorités" LE MONDE pour Le Monde.fr | 21.06.10 | 12h22 • Mis à jour le 21.06.10 | 15h13

uy Ryder, le deuxième congrès mondial de la Confédération internationale syndicale (CIS), dont vous êtes le secrétaire général, s'ouvre lundi 21 juin à Vancouver (Canada). Il intervient dans un contexte de crise économique durable aux conséquences sociales importantes.

Quelles sont vos priorités ?

Guy Ryder : Effectivement, le congrès de la CSI se réunit dans une ambiance de crise et de réactions sociales. Les dirigeants syndicaux français, par exemple, ne seront pas à Vancouver car ils participent aux manifestations sur les retraites. C'est dommage mais on le comprend.

Nous avions dit, dès le début de cette crise systémique, malgré toutes les souffrances vécues par les travailleurs, qu'il existait une opportunité de rendre plus juste la mondialisation. Les salaires n'ont pas suivi la progression de la productivité alors que les bénéfices ont augmenté en flèche. En relisant les titres du Monde d'il y a deux ans, on voit que certains chefs d'Etat, dont Nicolas Sarkozy, proposaient de revoir le modèle pour corriger les injustices du passé et éviter de répéter les mêmes erreurs. Ils ont alors mis l'emploi au cœur des réponses à la crise et insisté sur la réglementation du système financier et bancaire.

Deux ans après, vous êtes déçus ?

Il faut regarder la réalité en face. Beaucoup de gouvernements affirment que l'heure est à l'assainissement des finances publiques. En Europe particulièrement, avec la Grèce, l'Italie, l'Espagne, l'Allemagne, la Grande-Bretagne et en France avec le débat sur les retraites. Les gouvernements ont été paniqués par les marchés financiers et sont victimes des mêmes spéculateurs qui ont provoqué la crise. L'heure est à l'austérité et les bonnes intentions d'hier tombent à l'eau. La reprise de la croissance est faible, surtout en Europe. Elle ne règlera pas le problème des 34 millions de chômeurs résultant de la crise. L'emploi doit rester la priorité des priorités.

Certains gouvernements parlent de soutenir l'emploi tout en mettant en œuvre des politiques d'austérité. N'est-ce pas contradictoire ?

Il y a bien une contradiction. Les ministres des finances, lors de la dernière réunion du G20 en Corée du Sud, n'ont pas du tout évoqué la crise et la relance de l'économie par des actions coordonnées. La proposition du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) de mettre à contribution le secteur financier n'a pas été retenue. Pas plus que notre proposition d'un impôt international sur les transactions financières, soutenue par Nicolas Sarkozy et Angela Merkel. Entre politique de soutien à l'emploi et austérité, le G20 doit choisir.

Dans un tel contexte, que peut le syndicalisme mondial ?

A l'appel de la Confédération européenne des syndicats (CES), une journée d'action avec manifestation à Bruxelles est prévue le 29 septembre, jour de la réunion des ministres de l'économie. Ce n'est pas demain certes, mais la réaction risque d'être forte à la rentrée. Une grève générale est prévue à cette date en Espagne. De nombreuses manifestations ont eu lieu en Allemagne, au Portugal,

en Espagne, en Italie. Même au Danemark, où la culture n'est pas vraiment de descendre dans la rue ! Ca commence à chauffer et nous espérons que le G20 des chefs d'Etat, qui se tient à Toronto (Canada) la semaine suivant notre congrès, changera de cap.

La situation varie d'un pays à l'autre. Tous les syndicats peuvent-ils parler d'une seule voix ?

La situation n'est pas uniforme. En préparant le discours d'ouverture pour ce congrès, je me suis demandé si la crise était identique pour tous. Pour les Asiatiques, elle n'est pas pire que la crise financière qui les a touchés en 1997-1998. Aujourd'hui, l'Asie ne s'en sort pas trop mal. Certains pays d'Amérique latine aussi, comme le Brésil et l'Argentine. Et en posant la question à un syndicaliste sénégalais, il m'a répondu en riant que la crise en Afrique n'avait pas débuté avec la chute de Lehman Brothers en 2008.

Cela étant, nous avons en commun deux objectifs. Il faut continuer de proposer une politique alternative pour la mondialisation qui réponde aux souhaits des opinions publiques : croissance, travail décent, économie durable. Nous devons gagner des alliés et convaincre de nouveaux gouvernements. Certains sont déjà d'accord avec nous. Deux chefs d'Etat s'adresseront à notre congrès : Georges Papandréou, le premier ministre grec, qui a déjà expliqué aux syndicats grecs qu'il comprenait leur hostilité au plan d'austérité, mais qu'il ne pouvait pas faire autrement sous la pression des marchés financiers. La présidente argentine, Cristina Kirchner, rappellera peut-être, elle, que son pays, pourtant soumis aux pressions financières, a refusé de payer sa dette en 2000-2001.

Ce sont deux réponses intéressantes à discuter. Lénine avait annoncé la destruction des Etats et l'avènement de la dictature du prolétariat. La destruction des Etats s'accompagne, aujourd'hui, de la dictature du "monétariat". Les gouvernements doivent reprendre leurs prérogatives et ne pas abdiquer devant leurs responsabilités.

Quel est le deuxième défi ?

Nous devons continuer à travailler avec nos amis de la société civile. La présence du président de Greenpeace montre combien les questions de développement durable, d'environnement sont imbriquées à la problématique syndicale. Nous avons conscience de la nécessité de réduire l'émission des gaz à effets de serre, mais des politiques d'emploi dynamiques doivent assurer la transition afin que les travailleurs n'en soient pas victimes.

Les intérêts des syndicats des pays développés et ceux des pays en voie de développement ne peuvent-ils pas diverger ?

Il y a bien sûr des situations compliquées. En cas de délocalisations, les intérêts ne sont évidemment pas les mêmes entre les travailleurs qui perdent leur emploi et ceux des pays de destination. Nous devons veiller à ce que la délocalisation se fasse dans des conditions de travail et sociales acceptables pour tous. Nous avons toujours affirmé qu'il fallait des clauses sociales aux traités commerciaux. Le respect des droits fondamentaux doit être une base universelle à la mondialisation.

Propos recueillis par Rémi Barroux

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World unions warn G20 leaders ahead of summit to think beyond business Published on June 21st, 2010

VANCOUVER - International labour organizers say they have a message for world leaders ahead of the G8 and G20 summits: things must change.

Leaders of the International Trade Union Confederation, which is holding its world congress in Vancouver ahead of the summits in Ontario later this week, say they will tell international leaders that there won't be economic recovery without jobs.

In fact a large part of the confederation's second World Congress, entitled "Now The People," will look at the global economic crisis and how the congress believes leaders should proceed.

The group's general secretary, Guy Ryder, and Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday to relay the message.

Ryder said global economic recovery is extremely fragile and unemployment levels are still far too high.

"I take away from the meeting his repeated phrase — and I welcome it — that between fiscal consolidation and job creation, he said 'it's a balancing act,'" he said on the first day of the congress.

The confederation, which represents 176 million union workers around the globe, will also meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia's Kevin Rudd and other world leaders during the upcoming summits in Ontario.

Georgetti told reporters at a news conference Monday at the opening of the gathering that global leaders need to take more than just finance into account.

"They've ignored them for too long and the results, as we've seen in the last 20-25 months, have been stark and startling," Georgetti said.

Delegates at the conference will debate a resolution demanding deep reform to the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization.

"Working people are angered by the cause of the crisis and feel a deep sense of injustice at the massive suffering it has brought," says the resolution.

Ryder said they worry as the problem appears to ease for certain financial institutions and on world markets.

"The initial impetus and imperative for regulation is going to recede and we believe the G20 leaders must not let that happen."

Sharan Burrow, ITUC president, said working people around the world are angry about this financial crisis developed by the corporate sector.

"They know that they've, in fact, been the victims of this greed," she said. "People lost their jobs, they lost working hours, the lost pension entitlements, in many cases they lost their homes."

The confederation believes some kind of financial transaction tax is essential, but Harper has aggressively opposed such a tax.

Georgetti said he told Harper that the way the federal government characterizes the fee as a bank tax gave him a way out, to argue that Canada's banks weren't part of the problem.

"I likened it to the BP oil spill in the gulf. This would be like letting BP start drilling the day after they had that spill," he said. "We're always taught, and should expect, that if you make a mess you have to clean it up."

And if the message doesn't get through to world leaders through dialogue, Georgetti said union workers will be a "loud peaceful voice" on Toronto's streets on Saturday.

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World unions warn G20 leaders ahead of summit to think beyond business Written by Terri Theodore and Sunny Dhillon, The Canadian Press Monday, June 21 2010, 10:00 PM

VANCOUVER - International labour organizers say they have a message for world leaders ahead of the G8 and G20 summits: things must change.

The International Trade Union Confederation, which began its world congress Monday in Vancouver, says it plans to tell the world leaders that there won't be economic recovery without more jobs.

In fact, a large part of the confederation's second world congress, entitled "Now The People," will look at how to move forward from the global economic crisis. The five-day conference will examine restructuring the worldwide economy with an emphasis on workers' rights and continued financial stimulus.

Guy Ryder, the confederation's general secretary, and Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, told reporters at a news conference Monday that global leaders need to take more than just finance into account when assessing the economy.

Ryder said global economic recovery is extremely fragile and unemployment levels are still too high. He and Georgetti met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week and relayed that message.

"I take away from the meeting his repeated phrase — and I welcome it — that between fiscal consolidation and job creation, he said 'it's a balancing act,'" Ryder said.

The confederation represents 176 million union workers around the globe. During the summits in Ontario later

this week, it will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other world leaders.

Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou made an appearance at the conference Monday via video link.

Papandreou's debt-ridden country introduced a multi-billion dollar austerity package earlier this year that cut wages of civil servants, froze pensions and raised consumer taxes.

But during his speech Papandreou said Greece, which saw its government bonds cut to junk status by Moody's Investor Services last week, is bouncing back.

"We have made difficult decisions, we have already reduced the first six months 40 per cent of our deficit compared to last year and we will be on track," he said.

Papandreou, who spoke from International Labour Organization headquarters in New York, did not take questions after his speech.

He said much of the world's wealth is unequally distributed "with great injustices for many societies."

"The share of wealth by labour today in our world is at the levels of the 1930s and this is not only a question of standard of living," he said. "When wealth is concentrated in power in the hands of the few, it not only creates inequality, but it also creates a political situation where politics itself can't be captured because our democratic institutions are all captured by big interests."

Papandreou conceded Greece has a responsibility for the European debt crisis, but said the country was a weak link in a flawed global system. He also called for greater regulation in financial markets.

"We are a few days away from the G20 summit in Toronto and let's present a clear message: workers' rights are directly connected both to green development, (and) a balanced economic system where financial services work to serve our citizens," he said.

The confederation's delegates will debate a resolution that demands deep reform to the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization.

"Working people are angered by the cause of the crisis and feel a deep sense of injustice at the massive suffering it has brought," the resolution reads.

Sharan Burrow,the confederation's president, said working people around the world are angry about the financial crisis developed by the corporate sector.

"They know that they've, in fact, been the victims of this greed," she said. "People lost their jobs, they lost working hours, the lost pension entitlements, in many cases they lost their homes."

The confederation believes some kind of financial transaction tax is essential, but Harper has aggressively opposed such a tax.

Georgetti said he told Harper that the way the federal government characterizes the fee as a bank tax gave him a way out, to argue that Canada's banks weren't part of the problem.

"I likened it to the BP oil spill in the gulf. This would be like letting BP start drilling the day after they had that spill," he said. "We're always taught, and should expect, that if you make a mess you have to clean it up."

And if the message doesn't get through to world leaders through dialogue, Georgetti said union workers will be a "loud peaceful voice" on Toronto's streets on Saturday.

G20 : les syndicats fourbissent leurs armes

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Les leaders d'un syndicat international lancent un message aux dirigeants du G8 et du G20 quelques jours avant leurs sommets: l'infrastructure financière mondiale responsable de la récente récession doit être modifiée.

La Confédération syndicale internationale (CSI), qui tient une réunion mondiale à Vancouver, a l'intention de faire savoir aux dirigeants de la planète qu'il ne peut y avoir de relance économique sans emplois.

Le secrétaire général de l'organisation, Guy Ryder, et le président du Congrès du travail du Canada, Ken Georgetti, ont rencontré le premier ministre Stephen Harper vendredi pour lui faire part de leur position.

M. Ryder affirme que la relance économique mondiale est encore très fragile et tandis que les taux de chômage demeurent beaucoup trop élevés.

Il prétend que M. Harper a reconnu la nécessité d'un équilibre entre la consolidation fiscale et la création d'emplois, et que d'autres mesures sont nécessaires pour stimuler le marché du travail.

La CSI, qui représente 176 millions de syndiqués à travers le monde, rencontrera aussi la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, le premier ministre australien Kevin Rudd et d'autres leaders mondiaux lors des deux sommets en Ontario.

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Guy Ryder, secretary general of the International Trade Union Confederation.

Global Labour Frames Future in Vancouver

900 delegates from all over the world to vote on green social justice agenda.

By Tom Sandborn , Today, TheTyee.ca

The international labour movement has arrived in Vancouver this week, and is preparing to take its prescription for healing the world economy to the summer's upcoming G8 and G20 summits. Global labour's point man, Guy Ryder, told The Tyee he represents a movement that has been hurt by business globalization and anti-union ideologies, but is resilient and building strength in areas far from the industrial heartlands of the most developed nations.

Secretary general of the International Trade Union Confederation Ryder, a Cambridge graduate, was trim, relaxed, eloquent and dapper in a well cut grey suit when he spoke with The Tyee this spring, in town for preliminary meetings in advance of the ITUC's second world congress that runs June 21-25 in Vancouver.

The ITUC is the world's largest umbrella group of independent unions, representing 175 million workers in 155 countries. If all of Ryder's members were gathered together in one nation, it would be the sixth largest country by population in the world, just larger than Pakistan and just smaller than Brazil.

Ryder said his organization is facing historic challenges during the current economic crisis, and he talked with excitement about some of the approaches the ITUC is pursuing to rebuild the house of labour after decades of neo-conservative onslaught.

'From crisis to social justice'

Ryder calls for more aggressive organizing of unorganized workers everywhere, especially in the Third World, where much of the work done by unionized workers in the developed world has moved, and for a global tax on financial transactions to fund an economic recovery that includes workers and jobs.

The "jobless recovery" reported in the business pages, he said, is not a recovery at all unless it allows workers to get back to work and to earn a fair return for their labour.

Ryder said this week's congress in Vancouver, working under the slogan "Now the People: From the Crisis to Global Social Justice" would focus on workers' rights, migrant workers, climate change and HIV-AIDS.

"The last three decades have been very unfavorable for working people," he said. "Starting with the Reagan/Thatcher years, the labour share of global wealth has now been driven down to the level we had in 1930. The International Labour Organization says the current crisis has destroyed 34 million extra jobs in the past two years. The aggregate trend is negative and the international labour movement has got to find ways to deal with job losses and follow and organize jobs when they are shifted to the third world."

Those trends are evident in Canada. In 2008, 31.2 per cent of Canadian workers belonged to unions, down from 33.7 per cent in 1997, according to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada . Rates of unionization varied from 24 per cent in Alberta to 39.4 per cent in Quebec. B.C.'s rate was 31 per cent.

The economic downturn of the past two years has only worsened the picture for labour, driving driven the Canadian national figure for unionization down to 29.9 per cent for 2009. Of the 4,605,193 union members in Canada in 2009, over three million belong to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the host group for the upcoming ITUC meeting in Vancouver.

CLC president Ken Georgetti told The Tyee, "Having the world congress in Vancouver gives the labour movement in Canada the chance to see the struggles of workers around the world first hand. It's also a chance to learn that most of us have the same struggles, and we share the same aspirations -- a decent job, decent and safe work, the ability to retire in dignity after a lifetime of work with a decent pension."

'Just transition, green jobs' agenda

The ITUC Congress will hear from a spectrum of international speakers including Juan Somavia, director general of the International Labour Organization, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, and Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.

The ITUC gathers together most of the organized workers on the planet with the exception of the over 200 million workers in state controlled Chinese unions. Ryder said the Chinese organizations are not yet eligible to join his group because the level of state and party control over organized labour means the unions in China do not qualify as independent. The World Federation of Trade Unions claims to represent up to 70 million workers in unions that were once aligned with local communist parties and the Soviet Union. Ryder says these claims are "not credible."

More than 900 delegates from the 300-plus labour centrals that make up the ITUC are gathering in Vancouver. Fresh from this international meeting, some of these same labour leaders will move on to participate in meetings of the G8 and G20 slated for Ontario immediately after the ITUC events.

To these gatherings of the leaders of the world's most powerful economies the labour leaders will be bringing a set of proposals for what Ryder calls a "just transition, green jobs" agenda that will repair the world economy without making climate change and other environmental damage worse.

"We'll be bringing the message that there needs to be more interests represented at the table than just finance," the CLC's Georgetti told The Tyee. "It's more than just money. Trade and the expansion of trade has to benefit more than just business -- it must benefit workers too. We found out a long time ago that trade agreements don't benefit workers and it's time to change that."

"Employment issues need to be taken into account," Ryder said, "but at the same time, we need to follow a green, low carbon agenda. We've seen a major turn of the corner in the union movement on this topic. Ten years ago international labour couldn't endorse the Kyoto Accord, but we've seen a real sea change now. Only a few weeks ago I was invited to speak to the Greenpeace International AGM. That would have been unimaginable 10 years ago. Then, we and environmentalists were on opposite sides of the barricades."

New generation of leadership

Ryder, born in the U.K. and just over 50 years old, represents a new generation of leadership much more responsive to environmentalism than would have been possible even a decade ago. Similarly embracing campaigns many earlier unionists might have opposed, the organization he has led since its founding congress in 2006 is trying to ensure gender parity and a focus on the rights of women and young workers at its Vancouver gathering. Every national delegation will be required to reflect a 50-50 gender balance or it will have to answer to the credentials committee, which, Ryder said, may well cut back the voting strength of delegations that arrive with more men than women members.

Ryder said that if the June congress had been held two years ago, trade agreements and their impacts on workers would have been at the top of the agenda. Now, however, in the wake of the current global financial crisis and mounting concerns about climate change, other topics have shouldered their way to the top of labour's agenda. As noted, the ITUC is committed to helping to build an environmentally friendly economy that fairly treats all workers, especially the women and migrant workers who continue to bear the brunt of economic disruptions.

Ryder said his organization will be lobbying for the creation of a "financial transaction tax" that would collect a small amount each time a stock, bond or derivative is traded, with the revenue collected earmarked for job creation, progress on the United Nations mandated Millennium Development goals and a worker friendly, jobs oriented economic recovery plan.

"More financial regulation is needed," Ryder said. "Some transactions should be ended altogether, like the 'naked credit default swaps' that are such a big part of the Greek crisis now."

"Naked" credit default swaps are a particularly bizarre phenomenon of modern finance, a purely speculative insurance policy purchased by someone who does not hold any of the bonds or other financial instruments that underlie the CDS. "It's like having fire insurance on your neighbor's house," said Ryder.

Regulating derivatives

Marc Lee, senior economist at the B.C. offices of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, is supportive of the call for increased transparency and regulation of financial instruments like the naked CDS.

"Derivative trading should be tightly regulated," he told The Tyee. "Derivatives were originally developed as a hedge, a way to insure against future loss, but speculators have flipped them on their heads. Anything that shrinks the size of financial speculation is a good thing. Lots of it occurs in totally unregulated areas now."

Lee was more ambivalent about Ryder's suggested financial transaction tax.

"While it is a good idea, and one we've discussed at the CCPA for years now, you have to be careful about the competing claims that are made for such a tax. On the one hand, proponents say such a tax will reduce speculation, while on the other they tout it as a source of revenue for achieving useful social targets like the Millennium Development Goals. If the tax is successful enough in reducing speculation, it will likely reduce the revenue base that is being promised for progressive policy goals."

The International Trade Union Confederation held its founding congress in Vienna in 2006, merging the two major global labour groups then in existence, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour. The merger was made possible by the end of the Cold War, during which the WCL represented unions aligned with the U.S.S.R. and the IFTU represented labour centrals aligned with the U.S. and other non-Soviet powers.

Tom Sandborn is a Tyee contributing editor focusing on labour and health issues.

La FEB s'attaque au crédit-temps

Le discours du directeur général de la Fédération des entreprises de Belgique (FEB) sur les abus éventuels du système de crédit-temps est une provocation, estime lundi Anne Demelenne, secrétaire générale de la FGTB.

Selon Pieter Timmermans, le patron des patrons, il n'est pas acceptable que de nombreux travailleurs de plus de 50 ans utilisent le crédit-temps pour alléger leur fin de carrière.

"C'est une allusion gratuite et qui ne fait pas avancer les choses. Dans la période que nous traversons, il convient plutôt d'envoyer un message apaisant et de revenir à une paix sociale en veillant à maintenir des conditions correctes pour les travailleurs", commente Anne Demelenne depuis Vancouver où la FGTB participe au deuxième Congrès de la Confédération syndicale internationale (CSI) qui se tient jusqu'à vendredi au Canada.

Face aux chiffres avancés sur le recours au crédit-temps, elle pense qu'il convient plutôt de se demander pourquoi autant de travailleurs sollicitent un crédit-temps et d'analyser le poids de la charge de travail.

"Les propos de M. Timmermans sont une invitation de la FEB au futur gouvernement pour mener une politique anti-sociale. On attend de la FEB un discours plus responsable que celui-là", conclut la secrétaire générale. (belga)

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Luis Laugé LA NACION

Los sindicalistas de la CGT se quedaron por ahora sin el prometido anuncio presidencial sobre el aumento del mínimo no imponible del impuesto a las ganancias.

Sin embargo, y para no desanimarlos, Cristina Kirchner compensará la demora con un nuevo gesto político. La jefa del Estado llegará el próximo miércoles a Vancouver, Canadá, acompañada por el jefe de la central obrera, Hugo Moyano; el metalúrgico Antonio Caló y el dirigente de Smata (mecánicos), Mario Manrique, para participar del II Congreso de la Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI). Cumplirá, así, con la invitación formulada por su secretario general, el británico Guy Rider.

Será un hombre de confianza de Moyano, el vocero de la CGT Juan Carlos Schmid, quien anticipe mañana su partida a Canadá, para organizar los detalles que esperan a la delegación sindical.

Tanto la Presidenta como los dirigentes de la CGT participarán hasta el sábado próximo en el debate que llevará la consigna de "Ahora los pueblos, de la crisis a la justicia global". La CSI es la principal organización internacional, tiene 176 millones de afiliados, agrupados en 312 organizaciones de 156 países.

Los sindicalistas también acompañarán a Cristina Kirchner el sábado y domingo de la semana próxima en Toronto, donde la Presidenta intervendrá en una nueva reunión del G-20. Los países más desarrollados del mundo buscan analizar "la situación y las soluciones para la crisis global".

Anuncio en espera Salvo que la jefa del Estado anuncie el incremento del mínimo no imponible el martes, antes de su partida a Vancouver -algo poco probable-, los sindicalistas esperan que el decreto oficial se dé a conocer al regreso del viaje presidencial a Canadá.

Si ello ocurre, quedará muy escaso margen para que la suba del tributo impida un mayor descuento a los elevados salarios que se consiguieron por paritarias.

El régimen -debe tenerse en cuenta- será retroactivo al 1°de enero y los sindicalistas quieren que se concrete antes de pagarse el medio aguinaldo. Actualmente, el mínimo no imponible para los trabajadores solteros es de $ 4015, y de $ 5554 para los casados con dos hijos.

La CGT, en su momento, reclamó un 60% como aumento de máxima. Parece que el porcentaje razonable de ambos sectores sería del 25%.

Lo peor que podría pasarle a Moyano es que el aumento se pospusiera. Sin embargo, el camionero especula con plantear "un razonable acuerdo salarial" con la Federación de Empresarios de Autotransporte de Cargas (Fadeeac) en los próximos días. Su flexibilidad dependerá de que salga el mínimo no imponible.

"Los que se quejan del 35% de aumento que consiguió el sindicato de la alimentación no se imaginan lo que es Moyano, emperrado en no bajar del 31% en Camioneros, con sueldos no menores a los $ 5000", dijo a LA NACION un aliado sindical.

Moyano entregó por nota la semana última su pedido de aumento de sueldos a la Fadeeac y enfatizó que no debería ser menor al 31%. Desde entonces, se especula con llegar a un acuerdo del 24 al 28 por ciento. Amenazas al margen, se prevé que, más tarde o más temprano, el aumento oficial de Ganancias se concretará. Por algo el Gobierno y la CGT se prodigan tantas caricias y gestos de buena voluntad.

Lunes 21 de junio de 2010 12:33

Agregó que viajará a Canadá con la presidenta Cristina Fernández Moyano dijo que hay coincidencias entre industriales y CGT en las políticas para optimizar el crecimiento

Moyano dijo que hay coincidencias entre industriales y CGT en las políticas para optimizar el crecimiento

El titular de la Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), Hugo Moyano, destacó hoy la existencia de "coincidencias" entre la central obrera y la Unión Industrial Argentina (UIA), en cuanto a las políticas para optimizar el crecimiento económico argentino y afirmó que aún no "hay definición en la paritaria de camioneros".

El gremialista aseguró que "en los encuentros mantenidos por dirigentes de la CGT con los referentes de la UIA, hay coincidencias en la necesidad de llevar adelante políticas que optimicen el crecimiento de la economía argentina, como viene sucediendo en los últimos años".

Moyano puntualizó que "al regreso de Canadá, donde participaremos con la presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner del II Congreso de la Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI) en Vancouver y de la cumbre del G 20 en Toronto, tendremos una reunión más amplia entre la CGT y la UIA para seguir avanzando en las conversaciones".

Acerca de las negociaciones salariales del gremio camionero, el sindicalista sostuvo que "las discusiones son duras", a la vez que añadió que "por el momento no hay definiciones".

Con respecto a la participación de la presidenta y de la CGT en Canadá, Moyano destacó la "importancia de que nos hayan invitado teniendo en cuenta la crisis europea, porque significa un reconocimiento a la experiencia de cómo la Argentina salió adelante.

"La política económica de la Argentina se sigue con atención, porque saben que tenemos un amplio conocimiento de las crisis y la experiencia suficiente como para afirmar que no deben implementar políticas de ajuste que han fracasado en el mundo", concluyó Moyano. (Télam)