The CGT arrives at the general strike crossed by strong tensions between its Peronist leaders and the K.

After a first flirtation that continued with the brand new administration of Javier Milei, some doubts arose about how the Federation of Commercial Employees would play – the union led by Armando Cavalieri is the one with the most members in the country – in the general strike called for this Wednesday for the CGT.

But this Sunday the union itself came out to dispel those doubts and confirmed to Clarion that he will also join the strike and that They will also mobilize to the Plaza de los Dos Congresos along with the rest of the Cegetist unions, the two CTA, social movements and the Left.

In this way, all CGT unions they closed ranks and they will join the strike against the Government. The union’s bet is high: they want the impact of the strike to be noticed in the different activities and also mobilize some 300,000 people to Wednesday’s rally in front of Congress.

The play It contains at least two risks:

1. That incidents will occur During the demonstration, something that the CGT evaluates could happen. “But not on the part of the unions or Peronism,” they clarify. They say they are afraid of “radicalized sectors” among the protesters and “functional inorganic sectors” of Milei. And they add: “The devil can always get his tail in.”
2. That compliance with the strike is less than what they expect and that the mobilization has less compliance than what they are looking for. This could show the CGT with less firepower than what inside the workers’ union they take for granted they have.

But in the CGT they discard these possible dangers. “Nothing ventured nothing gained”reason a powerful head of an industrial union.

Despite the internal consensus that exists in the call for strike – it is the most immediate against a Government; It will be carried out 45 days after Milei’s management begins. Inside the CGT, the differences between its different unions and currents continue to be palpable.

The strongest tension is between the union leaders who make up the CGT small table – for example, Hector Daer (Health),Gerardo Martínez (UOCRA), andres rodriguez (UPCN), José Luis Lingeri (Sanitary Works), gentlemen (Commerce) and the barrionuevistas – and the union leaders identified with Kirchnerism, such as Sergio Palacio (The Bank), Abel Furlan (Metallurgical Workers Union) and Mario Manrique (SMATA).

Sector K interprets this Wednesday’s strike as the kickoff of an escalation against the National Government. Some even They are already talking about another general strike in March.

But the Cegetista leadership stands up and warns that this strike will not be “a turd of nothing” and what they hope is that the measure of force will enable a dialogue table with the Casa Rosada.

“Kirchnerism seeks to capitalize on unemployment, make a profit and move the needle”, Accuses a historic Cegetista leader. And complete: “In the CGT we are not and were not K. Furthermore, we were always mistreated by the K. They always criticized us and even wanted to break the agreements,” said a member of the CGT small table.

Another union member added: “The differences with them are public. We, for example, We never joined their attack against the Supreme Court of Justice. We have a good relationship with the Court. The only one who joined at first was Pablo Moyano, but when we talked about it he got off.”

The mention of the Court is not accidental. The highest court must now intervene in the precautionary presentation by the CGT against the labor reform that it seeks to impose on Milei through a DNU.

Although the Trade Union clarifies that there were no gestures of support for the new Government, the official announcement that the trade union will also join the general strike has a direct impact on the Cegetista internal movement.

Armando Cavalieri is a member of the Fats group, together with the co-secretary general of the CGT, Héctor Daer. Without the company of the business leader, Daer He was left alone in the Cegetista prison.

Some attribute this to why the Health leader has shown tougher stances in recent days. ““They will not be able to walk down the street.”Daer warned on Saturday the legislators of opposition blocs who are in negotiations with the Government to approve the package of reform laws sent by the Executive Branch.

The railway leader Omar Maturano This Sunday is different from Daer. “The escrache has to stop. They also scolded us and it seems bad to me. Everyone has to think how they want to think. “Everyone has to be free,” he said.

But other CGT unionists relativized Daer’s words. “And about the pressures of the Casa Rosada on the governors and parliamentarians to get the law passed, no one says anything?” complained a Cegetista boss.

This Monday the leaders of the CGT small board are scheduled to have a meeting to polish the final details of the mobilization. already circulate a draft of the text that will be read, focused on the socio-labor issue and with winks to the middle sectors who, they understand, were most harmed at the start of Milei’s administration.

Some leaders are evaluating the possibility of having speakers at the event. There is talk that they could be the three Cegetista co-secretaries general, Daer, Pablo Moyano and Carlos Acuña. “Something brief, three minutes each,” says a union leader.

To one of the three, however, they already suggested that he was not capable because could be exposed to a whistle.