In this situation, the trade union of the games of chance workers asked the leader of the General Union of Workers (CGT), Hugo Moyano, to collaborate to find a solution.
Daniel Amoroso, head of ALEARA and PRO legislator in the City of Buenos Aires, informed it will send “a letter to Hugo Moyano to inform him about the situation and tell the workers that they should keep on belonging to that organization, rejecting an eventual change to another trade union”.
The problem came when the Trade Union of United Trade Seamen Workers (SOMU) called for a strike in the casinos of Puerto Madero. This trade union is headed by Omar Suárez.
As they are boats, casinos are obliged to have a captain, chief of machines and other merchant seamen, although they never navigate in Rio de la Plata. Altough SOMU affiliates are not more than 10% of 2,000 workers in both boats, these workers closed the casinos, claiming that all employees should pass to this trade union and leave ALEARA, the current trade union.
Of course, the other trade union opposes to the measure and asks casinos to reopen so their people may get back to work.
There is also a matter of money. SOMU affiliates do not receive tips, which mean more than 30% of the salary of ALEARA workers. That is a reason why this group of merchant seamen.