Here is a non-corrected but extremely clear (the wording is very 
straightforward) of a mainstream Argentine press article explaining the 
importance of tomorrow's verdict in the Mariano Ferreyra murder trial 
(thousands will be mobilized all day outside the Comodoro Py courthouse), 
involving responsibilities of the State, Big Railroads and the Union 
bureaucracy, and the (successful) struggle for unionization of thousands of 
outsourced railway workers.

Published by Infonews | Un mundo, muchas voces

http://www.infonews.com/2013/04/18/politica-70960-un-asesinato-que-es-mucho-mas-que-eso.php

A murder that is much more than that

By: Ana Vainman

Tomorrow we will know the verdict for the murder of Mariano Ferreyra. That 
death was not an isolated event. It is a crime that reveals a complex criminal 
network in which job insecurity are mixed, union impunity, police inaction and 
political complicity. There are 17 defendants for the death of the student and 
the wounding of three other Labor Party members who accompanied the claim of 
outsourced workers of the former Rock line.

For this attack, carried out the October 20, 2010, are charged the former head 
of the Railway Union (UF) José Pedraza and his second in the guild, Juan Carlos 
"Gallego" Fernández-as instigators, and eight other members of the union are 
charged as perpetrators of crime. During the trial, which began last August 6, 
seven policemen were also federal courts have colluded with the UF to ambush 
the protesters.

Mariano was only 23 years. Like many other children of the middle class, this 
kid-high, gangly, shy, decided to be different from other teenagers of his age 
and embrace militancy. From an early age went to put the body into what he 
thought and therefore put it, that here the bullet hit the mob assassin who 
fired Railway Union and died. He died fighting, marching alongside fellow. He 
died of a gunshot wound that entered his abdomen and ripped his vital organs. 
Not only Mariano was the victim of gang bullets integrated by Cristian Favale 
hooligan. Elsa Rodriguez, Nelson Aguirre and Ariel Pintos were also wounded.

The crime had such an impact that it related to the death of former President 
Nestor Kirchner. The former president died a week after the murder of Ferreyra 
as a result of coronary heart disease. The very President Cristina Fernandez 
said the bullet that killed Marian had also touched the heart of her husband. 
He said that the death of this young activist who fought for the dignity of the 
work of their peers had affected him much.

And for good reason. Mariano's murder revealed a concatenation of 
irregularities and illegal complicity converged in the criminal organization 
that claimed the life of the militant. The first finding is revealed that the 
outsourcing. Outsourcing a service (or outsourcing) is widespread in the 
business community worldwide that is to hire an outside firm to perform certain 
service. The classic examples are the providers of cleaning, security or human 
resources.

In principle, under the law, this is not prohibited. However, workers may face 
worse working conditions and at least lower wages. In most companies 
outsourced, no collective agreement respecting the company of origin, resulting 
in a higher profit for the company, because these workers have a lower cost 
outsourced. Example: If an oil entrepreneur hires a construction company for 
maintenance of plant facilities, are not paid wages or conditions respecting 
the agreement tankers (one of the most beneficial of the country), but the part 
in the construction. Also, if an employee is dismissed, it is more difficult to 
make judgment to the company of origin and prove that the companies are jointly 
liable.

The problem is that the current legislation is quite permissive with respect to 
outsourcing and that is why there have been several projects to establish 
clearer boundaries between what is right and what is wrong in this matter. But 
besides these modalities extended worldwide entrepreneur, what happened in the 
case of outsourced that hired former Railroad Rock unveiled the ad hoc creation 
of companies or cooperatives working to enrich entrepreneurs who defrauded the 
state through charged subsidies. But more surprising is that José Pedraza was 
also a participant in these "businesses" with which fraud was made to the 
State. Judge Wilma López tested the relationship between cooperative work and 
Belgrano Mercosur Union-where working loads which demonstrated on Mariano's 
death, and the former head of the UF. In the documentation of the first company 
Pedraza figure's wife, Graciela Coria, as director of class B and C shares, his 
sister, Silvia Coria, as treasurer, and his nephew, Maximilian Pedraza, as an 
employee. Graciela Coria also figure as the owner of the offices in which the 
cooperative work.

That's why we were able to establish the place Pedraza mobile instigating the 
murder of Ferreyra: suppress the outsourced claims. Repress, scare and 
intimidate allowed to keep workers outside the union structure, earning up to a 
third less-counter to what anyone may involve pursuing a union leader and block 
the entry of a mass of opposition votes to UF driving that could jeopardize his 
tenure as head of the guild, a position he holds Pedraza decades.

A Pedraza their fellow CGT hand released him. No one came to ask for his 
release, no one proclaimed his innocence. Not so when the judge Norberto 
Oyarbide ordered the arrest of the owner of the guild of rural laborers, 
Geronimo Venegas, in the context of the case by the drug mafia. The leaders 
then issued a sought in his defense. But Pedraza, nothing. A renowned leader of 
the labor union-unified-recognized then, "Pedraza Venegas is not ..."

Following the murder of Mariano about 1,500 contract workers were incorporated 
into the floor of the railway and cooperatives ceased to exist.

But beyond the criminal liabilities, which are those that were put into play at 
trial that ends tomorrow, there are also political responsibilities. If you 
look at the subsidy policy, the actions of the outsourced and defrauding the 
state, pointing guns against former Secretaries of Transportation Juan Pablo 
Schiavi and Ricardo Jaime, who are not afraid to take sign concessions to 
business friends and girarles millions and millions of dollars in subsidies 
wasted and diverted.

The government's attitude towards the murder was of repudiation, but the then 
Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez said the day of the murder, and ratified it 
later-that the police action was "impeccable." However, there are seven 
policemen accused in the trial. Meanwhile, Labor Minister Carlos spoke to the 
rail Taken three months after the crime and offered fraternal advice-in a very 
typical official, who was once the Railway Union lawyer-to "make laburo 
association" with the outsourced. Finally the vice of the Labor Ministry, Naomi 
Rial, was made available to the accused at times when you were searching his 
home and the union.

Tomorrow will be the turn of the Oral Criminal Court No. 21 of Comodoro Py give 
its verdict on the crime. We will have to wait until then to see if there will 
be justice for the crime of Mariano Ferreyra.



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