According to Uruguay’s largest trade union confederation PIT-CNT, more than one million of the country’s 3.2 million residents took part in the 24-hour general strike called by the organization for Thursday against the “government model of inequality”.
The general secretary of the union’s umbrella organization, Elbia Pereira, said the strike was directed against wage cuts, high prices and a planned reform of the social security system.
Abdala added that the strike “has found great support in the central administration, in all companies, in all public and private education, in public and private banking, in construction, in all industry, in essential services for the population, with the exception of health care. .
The chairman of the PIT-CNT admitted that the strike had no impact on transport, as there were buses in the cities, but they were empty.
For his part, the secretary of the President of the Republic, Álvaro Delgado, criticized the work stoppage, writing on the Twitter social network that the Workers’ Center is conducting a general strike against a social security reform project.
However, “there is still no draft, there is no reform yet. But a strike hurts those who want to study and work.”
This is the fourth 24-hour general strike called by the PIT-CNT in the current term of government, which began on March 1, 2020.
In the 12 months to August, Uruguay recorded an inflation rate of 9.53% and a cumulative inflation rate for the year of 7.74%.
