Uruguay: Public services to be affected by Pit-Cnt's partial general strike Wednesday

Uruguay's public sector will experience significant disruptions on Wednesday, June 10, as employees participate in a partial general strike and mobilization called by the Pit-Cnt labor confederation. The strike is scheduled to run from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, with a march planned in Montevideo.

Public health services, including the Administration of State Health Services (ASSE), will be affected from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. A union guard will be present to handle only emergencies, oncology patients, and those already hospitalized. In education, both secondary school teachers (Fenapes) and primary school teachers (Ademu) will strike for the full 24 hours.

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These are issues that for us are absolutely necessary to improve working conditions and the situation in the country, which continues to be in a complex situation, especially regarding children and adolescents.

Services at the Institute for the Child and Adolescent of Uruguay (INAU) and the National Institute for Adolescent Social Inclusion (INISA) will also be impacted. Central offices and direct services at INAU will cease operations. Full-time services at INAU and INISA will operate under a union guard schedule from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.

Public registries will be closed to the public all day, only accepting deadlines and expirations. The Electoral Court will also be on strike for the entire day. Ministry of Interior penitentiary operators will strike for 24 hours with a guard service. Ministry employees will strike from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, mirroring the banking sector's participation. Public transportation and taxi services are expected to operate normally, as their unions will join the mobilization but not halt services.

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This government came generating many expectations of change, but clearly in the first year, those expectations of a large part of the population have not been met.