Subte workers will strike for two hours, between 5 and 7am, tomorrow. Service will be suspended on all six lines as employees demand better safety conditions.
The protest comes almost two weeks after the Metropolitan Police took over policing duties on subte stations from the Federal Police on 1st June.
According to the subte workers, up until 31st May the Federal Police had 700 agents working on subte stations, whilst the Metropolitan Police now has 300. After a robbery last week at the Castro Barros station, on the A line, workers demand that ticket windows be protected with safety glass.
Roberto Pianelli, Secretary General of the Subte and Premetro Workers’ Union (AGTSyP), said: “This conflict isn’t new, we’ve been warning [subte owner] SBASE and [operator] Metrovías since March 2013 that they needed to do something about the withdrawal of the Federal Police, because ticket booths handle a lot of money and none of them have safety glass.”
Metrovías and SBASE held a meeting this afternoon with the City’s Labour Undersecretary to try and resolve the conflict, whilst the union has been called for a meeting tomorrow at noon.
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