March of the government in a standard that swept with the weak guilds

It did so by the Labor Secretariat Resolution 751, published yesterday in the ILO deliberations, under which a standard signed by the then Minister of Labor, Jorge Triaca, was repealed at the end of 2017. This provision, 17/2017, of the Directorate of Trade Unions, devoted a kind of purge by excluding from the register of professional badociations the registration organizations having no activity. accredited in the last three years. And that gave them 60 days to regularize.

The Law on Trade Union Associations in Argentina provides for two levels of recognition by the State: trade union status, which consecrates the monopoly of representativeness by giving them all the rights to act in a conflict or a dispute. collective bargaining, the power to collect the quota the affiliation and the maintenance of the privileges of its delegates, among other prerogatives. The next level, that of the lower hierarchy, is union registration: it is a simple formality of recognition by any union entity with the presentation of minimum guarantees but not provided for by legislation.

The distinction between one and the other, however, has been questioned by the Argentine governments via the ILO and even by the Supreme Court. In both cases (at least in the previous composition of the court), there should be no clearer distinction when it comes to providing workers with defense tools before the employers.

But while the legal divide was already debatable for Argentina, provision 17 directly threatened to put the country in the sights of this ILO conference. Triaca had ordered his team to be part of the mechanisms surrounding the dissident unions that he had set up in his administration. His successor, Dante Sica, and the Secretary of Labor, Lucas Fernández Aparicio, retreated before the new resolution dated June 6, but communicated in Geneva yesterday.

The Workers' CTA, led by Hugo Yasky, who has participated extensively in international forums, celebrated the retreat in order to understand that its validity "violated freedom of badociation and threatened the continuity of many trade unions representing workers at the time. they did not enjoy this right, "said Roberto Baradel, teacher and number two of the organization.

The teacher felt that it was "a success of the labor movement that occurs when the ILO discusses the list of cases that will be dealt with by the Standards Commission." because of the seriousness of the violation of labor rights ".

In the recitals of the resolution, the executive admitted that, during its validity, the provision did not have "the expected operational effect of the dictation" of the protection of laws, those that will ensure the worker among other things, a free and democratic trade union organization, recognized simply by registration in a special register ".