Macri intervened to stop the military conflict and agreed to review wages

The Government agreed to reopen the discussion on the salary reclbadification of the Armed Forces personnel who yesterday surprised by its high degree of confrontation by imposing the suspension of the traditional military parade for Independence Day after the 8% update that Casa Rosada had defined as a mid-week subsidy.

Defense Minister Oscar Aguad confirmed that a dialogue forum has been opened, at the request of Mauricio Macri, with the leaders of the army, navy and the army. 39, air force to review the salary recomposition. On air in Radio Miter, the official became "responsible" for the link that generated "malaise", and completed: "It was an error, which is being corrected."

According to his expressions and from military sources to this newspaper, the Defense will take "a new proposal" of the Libertador Palace to the Palace of the Treasury, to alleviate the discomfort of the bases and the military officers. The intention is to agree to a floor of 15%, like the one who already has the rest of the public administration, and to redial the hierarchical responsibility surcharge and calculation of the supplement for l & # 39; administration of equipment, items that increase wage revenue.

The decision of the officers to boycott the traditional military procession on July 9 immediately gave effect to a government that seeks not to open more conflict fronts. It was a 180 degree turn regarding the terms in which President Macri spoke a week ago, when in Olivos he told the Chief of Chiefs of Staff, Bari del Valle Sosa, that the military had to understand that they were "the armed forces of a melting country. Under this impression was that the Treasury and Defense were encouraged to formalize Tuesday non-cumulative and non-cumulative compensation amounts of $ 2,000 and $ 4,500 on Tuesday instead of an adjustment based on inflation. Today

Despite the gesture of decompression, the news communicated at the last minute did not succeed in resuming the parade (which Casa Rosada canceled on the basis of "budgetary questions") and the national strike with mobilization of civilian staff.

"Turbulence", as the ruling party likes to express, the military is recognized as the "adjustment variable" by which the government can accelerate the adjustment of spending. The salaries of the three forces, plus administrative staff, account for about 80% of Defense positions.

Although the military is not unionized and can not exercise the right to strike, the workers have this guarantee the civilians of the armed forces who, before parity on the decline, decided to mobilize Thursday to demand the recovery talks, reinstate their days off, and move on to the planned factory.

Maximiliano Bares, delegate of ATE at the Institute of Social Work of the Armed Forces and Security (Iosfa) announced after a trade union plenary the call for a national strike with the march of the sector. "There is widespread discontent with the government's decision to adapt everywhere, and most of the civilian comrades are asking for $ 14,000, or wages below the Indec poverty line," he said. he declared in El Salvador. Columnist referent of a team of nearly 7000 employees.