CFK warns union leaders over methodology of protests

While attending the oficial inauguration of a highway uniting the cities of Santa Fe and Paraná, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner addressed the controversy over the methodology of the protests staged by various unions and warned them that “if the effectiveness of the Kirchnerite model is hindered, you will be the first to be affected.”

“We always tell workers and their leaders that they must always defend the Kirchnerite model, because they are the first to see its benefits. If things take a turn for the worst, they will be the first to be affected,” she said.

She continued to say that “whenever they push the limits with their methodologies, it hurts me that many fellows don’t realize they are being functional to neoliberal ideology. Remember that those who privatized the country responded to an ideology that was no good.”

“I ask union leaders to keep fighting for the rights of their members. But please remember this is a government that has made our minimum salary the highest in Latin America,” she said.

Mrs. Fernández de Kirchner later declared the highway officially inaugurated and called it a “strategic work” that will bring progress and traffic safety.