El The Single Union of Customs Personnel (Supara) requested the General Directorate of Customs (DGA) that "the relevant steps be taken before the Ministry of Health" so that these workers have "priority access to the vaccination campaign«.
"Customs personnel must have priority access to vaccination against Covid-19," said theThe union organization led by the member of the CGT board of directors, Carlos Sueiro, who indicated that the organization shares "the arguments put forward by the union regarding the need to prioritize the immunization of customs workers based on the importance of the tasks they perform since the beginning of the serious pandemic«.
Through a statement, the leader and members of the union leadership stated that Since the beginning of the health emergency, Customs has continued to carry out absolutely all of its functions in the national territory., independently of the epidemiological situation and the definition of isolation or distancing zones, they assured. In this framework, they asserted that all personnel were authorized to carry out tasks in person or remotely, always respecting "the protection and prevention measures developed by the Crisis Committee established in the DGA-AFIP (Application Protocol for Personnel with Inspection and Control Tasks), with the participation of Supara."
"It is vitally important to understand that if customs personnel are not protected with some additional protective measure, such as immunization with the coronavirus vaccine, the functionality of Customs in ports, airports and border crossings will be affected, which will jeopardize the normal development of foreign trade," Sueiro stressed.
For the union, this will harm the country economically and will worsen "logically the current crisis it is going through," so The union demanded to coordinate "a joint meeting between Supara, Health and the DGA" to explain the risks of the tasks performed by workers and the importance of them being given priority for vaccination."
Source: Telam
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