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Álvaro Grau questioned the collective bargaining agreement promoted in the Municipality of Asunción
The councilor and reelection candidate said the project has an electoral motive and warned about its impact on the Municipality’s finances. He also criticized the treatment it received from the Colorado bloc in the Junta.
The councilor of Asunción and reelection candidate, Álvaro Grau, denounced that the new collective bargaining agreement for municipal employees is being promoted for electoral purposes, less than two weeks before the municipal elections on October 4.
According to ABC Color, Grau made these statements in an interview with ABC TV, where he pointed to the document signed by Mayor Luis Bello with three unions. In his view, the initiative seeks to activate the Municipality’s electoral structure in favor of the ruling party.
The councilor also questioned the 15 Colorado councilors who provided a quorum to allow the project to be considered in the Municipal Junta. He said the Intendencia and its allies are trying to present the agreement as a response for workers, despite the fact that, according to him, the current contract is not even being complied with.
Still according to what was published by ABC Color, Grau said the proposal carries irregularities from the outset, including the exclusion of the Municipal Junta from prior talks and the lack of participation by several unions within the institution.
He also warned that the text commits benefits and obligations that the Municipality is not in a position to meet and that it would even exceed the legal limits for salaries and personnel services. In that context, he said he formally requested the return of the message to the Intendencia.
Grau said the Municipality is going through a critical financial situation and called for halting the use of the municipal budget for campaign purposes. He also urged the people of Asunción to turn out massively in the October 4 elections.
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