Subway strike lifted after union, Metrovías reach agreement

After holding a meeting at the City’s Labour Secretariat, the subway union AGTSyP announced that they had reached an agreement and that the strike “had been lifted”.

They also said that a 1 percent of their salary that was supposed to go to the UTA union “would not be extracted from their salaries.”

The rotation strike action scheduled for today on the Subte underground train service was called off last night, on announcement of today’s hearing, which will be led by Ezequiel Sabor.

AGTSyP Secretary-General Roberto Pianelli claimed earlier yesterday that “dialogue with Metrovías exists,” but that an agreement was “far from” being reached, adding that the strike would only have been called off if AGTSyP had received a guarantee that two points of the UTA-Metrovías agreement were removed.

One being, the wages of the subway workers who took part in the record ten-day strike in August not being docked, the other that one percent of the same salaries would not be deducted toward the health insurance of UTA members.