Hugo Yasky

Hugo Yasky
Deputy for the Buenos Aires Province
Assumed office
10 December 2017
Personal details
Born (1949-10-10) October 10, 1949
Ramos Mejía, Argentina
Occupation Union leader

Hugo Yasky (1949) is general secretary of the Argentine Workers' Centre (CTA), a major trade union federation in Argentina.

Biography

Hugo Yasky was born in 1949 in Ramos Mejía, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. His family is of Romanian-Jewish origin, although he was raised in a Jewish secular household. His grandfather was the first socialist city legislator in Ramos Mejía.[1]

He started working as a teacher in 1971, aged 21. He joined the teacher's union, and voted for the creation of the CTERA union in 1973. He was fired in 1978, during the National Reorganization Process. He started to work again in 1981, in Lomas de Zamora, recreating the local teacher's union. He was elected secretary general of SUTEBA in 1994.[1]

He was elected secretary general of the CTA in 1997. Back then, he opposed the policies of president Carlos Menem, and took part in a hunger strike at the Carpa blanca.[1] There were new elections in 2011, and he was initially defeated by Pablo Micheli, who opposed the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, supported by Yasky. The elections were contested, and the judiciary confirmed Yasky as president. Micheli considered that the presidency would have interfered in the elections via loyalist judges, and Yaski that the judiciary confirmed their suspicions about electoral fraud.[2]

He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hugo Yasky" (in Spanish). Línea sindical. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  2. ↑ "La Justicia falló a favor del kirchnerista Yasky y anuló las elecciones complementarias en la CTA" [The judiciary ruled in support of the Kirchnerite Yasky and voided the complementary elections] (in Spanish). Clarín. July 14, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Hugo Yasky juró como diputado" [Hugo Yasky swore as deputy] (in Spanish). CTA. December 6, 2017. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.