After several tense days due to strict measures at airports, the Transport Secretary said, <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/javier-milei-fired-the-minister-of-infrastructure-guillermo-ferraro/" title="Javier Milei fired the Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro”>Franco Mogettatargeting the aviation unions for the number and intensity of strikes they carried out during the government of the Javier Miley. Regarding the deregulation of the ramp service at airports, Mogetta revealed that the measure allows security forces to operate the service in emergencies.
In an interview with TN, Mogetta said that the National Government’s plan is to carry out privatisation Intercharge y Argentine Airlines. «From the beginning it was said that the intention was to leave everything in the hands of private capital“That was the president’s clear directive: to go fully with the government’s plan that the people voted for,” Mogetta said and took the opportunity to address the airline unions:For many years they have felt like the owners of the system and refuse to change«.
“These union members harm the company they claim to protect. Not only will they cause economic damage, but they will also damage their reputation,” said the national official. «Work of airline employees, who are serious and responsible professionals, nor has anything to do with foolish and unusual measures what these people do to protect their benefits, because here we are not talking about working conditions or a wage fight, because if that were true, the rest of the unions would not have closed the negotiations so fast,” explained Mogetta.
According to TN, during the government of Javier Milei there were 20 air strikes, on average one for every 16 days of the government, which they classified as “historic”. Therefore, the Secretary of Transportation confirmed the “threat that Aerolíneas Argentinas will be closed” if the conflict continues. Mogetta said criminal complaints could also be filed against the union leaders who stopped Wednesday.
In another part of the interview, Mogetta pointed out against Kirchnerism for “using Airlines to hide their boxes. ” “Kirchnerism nationalized a healthy company with very good numbers, with their own planes and changed it to what we see today. Our biggest achievement is changing the numbers of the company and stopping the booths and business boxes that the company had.which they turned into a bottomless barrel that created losses,” he said.