Central of Workers of Argentina

The Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina Autónoma and the Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina de los Trabajadores (CTA-A and CTA-T) are 2 workers' confederations, born from the separation of a group of unions from the CGT in 1992, dissatisfied with the position adopted against the government of Carlos Menem.

Currently, the sector that since 2011 has been called the CTA de los Trabajadores announced its dissolution in the CGT. The Autonomous CTA, for its part, maintains its identity as CTA.

History

CTA militants in the march of #8M 2023 in Tandil.

The Central de Trabajadores de Argentina began to have conversations and share positions against the Menem government in the "Burzaco Meeting", which took place on December 17, 1991.

On November 14, 1992, the "Congress of Argentine Workers" (from which it would take the acronym CTA) in Parque Sarmiento (CABA). Initially, the CTA was made up mainly of union organizations that brought together public sector workers separated from the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).), and then different unions also joined the private sector; The most important novelty at that time was that the direct affiliation of workers was defined, defined as those who work or worked or look for work, also incorporating direct voting in the elections of their leaders. In the 7th National Congress of Delegates, when the statute was modified, the name was changed to Central de Trabajadores de Argentina.

The general secretary of the CTA, from its inception until 2006, was the state-owned Víctor De Gennaro (State Workers Association, ATE), and later it was Hugo Yasky (general secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina, CTERA). In 2010, after a confrontation of projects in internal elections between two lists, Pablo Micheli's (State Workers Association, ATE) was the winner, but those elections registered irregularities in ten provinces and it was decided to repeat the contested part of the vote. The complementary elections, held three months later, were also challenged and the courts annulled them. So the Ministry of Labor extended the mandate of Hugo Yasky as General Secretary of the Central until the electoral process was definitively resolved.

In 2014 the Ministry of Labor formally recognized the division of the CTA into two centrals: the CTA de los Trabajadores, led by Yasky, and the CTA Autónoma, led by Micheli. Yasky's main base of support is the union teacher (CTERA), while Micheli's is state employees (ATE). That same year, the Autonomous CTA called for independent elections to elect its authorities, in which Pablo Micheli was re-elected.

In December 2016, a sector of the Autonomous CTA separated from the rest due to differences with the way in which Micheli managed the workers' union, criticizing that "for 9 months a plenary had not been convened". The grassroots unions that broke with Micheli's leadership moved their offices to the headquarters of Perón 3866, where the CTA Autónoma headquarters currently operates.^{[citation required]}

Micheli continued to speak on behalf of the Autonomous CTA in the media, but the grassroots unions did not abide by his mandate. Thus it was that at the beginning of 2017, Yasky and Micheli declared that the CTA would reunify in 2018. However, this idea was abandoned a few months later due to the fracture within the Autonomous CTA. Hugo "Cachorro" Godoy (ATE) asked Micheli to step aside from leading the central "because he no longer leads the CTA and the areas of debate do not work".

In 2018, the Autonomous CTA held two elections to elect authorities, the fraction that responds to Micheli held elections on June 28, while that of Peidro did so on August 8. With cross judicial presentations to invalidate the elections of the other sector, the conflict moved to the judicial area. In May 2019, Micheli was removed from the leadership of the Autonomous CTA by the Ministry of Labor, respecting a ruling by the National Chamber of Labor Appeals. In this way, Ricardo Peidro (AAPM of the RA) was left in charge of the Autonomous CTA, seconded by "Cachorro" Godoy (ATE) and Claudia Baigorria (Historical CoNaDU).

For its part, the CTA de los Trabajadores led by Hugo Yasky, together with the Micheli sector, announced in 2019 through a plenary session that they would dissolve their fractions of the CTA in the CGT, without to date has produced any news in this regard.

Features

Due to labor legislation in Argentina, the CTA does not have a Trade Union Occupancy, only a Trade Union Registration, and for this reason it has presented different requests for intervention before the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other international organizations, which have Intimidated on different occasions the Argentine government to modify Law 23,551 (of Professional Associations) adapting it to the international treaties included in the latest reform of the National Constitution of this country (1994).

Among the main characteristics in structure that the CTA statutes propose, in difference with the CGT, is the possibility of direct affiliation of the workers to the Central, without the need for the union of the labor sector to which they belong. worker is enrolled within the CTA. In addition, it also allows the affiliation of workers beyond their employment status at the time of affiliation, allowing the incorporation of active workers, passive (retired) and unemployed workers.

Another difference in the CTA statutes is the direct and secret election of all leadership positions in the organization, from the national level to the local (city) levels. While in the CGT the distribution of leadership positions is resolved by the leadership of the unions that comprise it. This central has as its fundamental principle its independence from political parties, the State and bosses. For this reason, it can increasingly unite leaders who have had a history in different parties or political sectors (radicals, peronists, communists, socialists, etc.)

Internal organization

Some of the unions and federations that make up the CTA are the following:

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