Millionaire condemns Independiente: Hugo Moyano did not pay the union contributions of the club’s workers

Hugo Moiano He has always made a cult of being one of the trade unionists most committed to defending workers’ rights. He led by the guide of truckers countless conflicts over wage increases and many more to demand that companies pay contributions to their union.

However, that rhetoric was at the antipodes of being fulfilled when he had to be on the other side of the table: his management at the head Independent left one debt of more than 84 million pesos in union contributions and social work of the 500 workers of the Avellaneda club.

Just for a part of that million dollar debt Independiente was condemned by justice. This Thursday a ruling by the Federal Court of the 1st Civil, Commercial and Administrative Litigation of Quilmes ordered the current administration of the club, which directs Fabiano Domanthe payment of almost $13 million to Sports Workers Union and Civil Entities (Utedyc)the union that represents the staff of Independiente, for the non-payment of union dues.

The sentence in question concerns the debt of contributions accumulated between February and December 2021, but other trials are also being processed in the Court in which Utedyc requests the non-payment of contributions by union members in the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022, as entrusted to clarion from the legal representation of Independiente, in the hands of Maximiliano Walker.

In total, the debt union dues alone total $69 million.

Furthermore, the authorities of Utedyc They asked the club to pay $15,021,426.71 in social work contributions of the union (Ospedyc) which has also stopped paying Moyano’s management in front of the “Red”. The claim corresponds to contributions that were not paid between February 2015 and the end of 2022 when the head of the truck drivers ended his management at the Avellaneda club.

In this case, the debt has not reached the courts and the current Doman leadership agreed a payment plan with the union in order to avoid the interruption of the medical services of the club workers.

There is non-payment of union contributions and staff social work only part of the millionaire debt that Moyano left to Independiente. This same week, Doman’s management released the total list of debts the club has since the previous administration.

According to that report, there are at least 27 commitments that total around $20 million and include non-payment of salaries to players, coaches, debts with representatives, other clubs and various pending lawsuits.

In the union world and also among the workers of Independiente they did not go unnoticed the paradox which means that precisely the management of a trade unionist at the head of the club culminated in millionaire debts due to the non-payment of social assistance contributions and to the union representing the staff.

Even when this type of demand, with noisy conflicts, strikes and controversial blockades of companies, has always been there one of Moyano’s favorite flags from his truck driving days and to a large extent also a key element to explain the consolidation of their power in the union scenario.

Its strength has also been amplified over the years by the offensive that the truck drivers’ boss has launched to challenge other unions for the representation of workers from the most diverse activities or by his ambition to identify leaders aligned with his figure at the head of the unions that were in front of his leadership. .

In this dimension, some unions have tried to interpret this Thursday the millionaire debt that Moyano has accumulated with Utedyc: in 2021, as part of the process of renewing the authorities in that union, the trucker encouraged an opposition list that sought to remove Carlos Bonjour from union leadership.

Yes, OK Moyano and Bonjour were allies for years, especially when the truck driver was in charge of driving the CGT, over time the link wore out. With the management of Hugo and his son Pablo Moyano in Independiente and, after the truck driver’s frustrated attempt to remove him from the leadership of Utedyc, Bonjour breaks all ties and definitively distances himself from the union world which brings him back to Moyanismo.