Anses enforced Early Retirement Act 26,494 for the Building Worker, by granting the benefit to the 62 year-old building worker Juan Bordón.

 “Having the chance of retirement is highly important for me and my family; I really thank to Gerardo Martinez, who promoted the bill, on behalf of all of us, the building workers. Early Retirement for the Building Workers is something we deserved, due to our effort and daily labour conditions”. With these words, Juan Bordón expressed his joy, in front of Anses building in the locality of Resistencia, Province of Chaco, in the presence of the local UOCRA General Secretary Tiburcio Fernández and a big number of Building Workers who supported the First worker of our industry who gets the benefit of Early Retirement. It constitutes a fair and deserved vindication as well as an institutional achievement for all the Building Workers.

It is worth pointing out that reduction in age requirement for the Building Worker will be progressive: in 2009, only workers from 60 years old can get the benefit; in 2010 from 57 years old and in 2011 from 56 years old. Such schedule establishes the limit the year 2012, since then, workers from 55 years old, as Act 26494 states, will get the benefit. Deeply moved, Bordón, who was with his wife and one of his three daughters, said: “I’ve been working for the building industry for many years, and this benefit was very important to me, since I suffered from a serious illness which prevented me from working hard.” Early Retirement, which emerged as a vindicatory dream for the Building Worker, became real when it was signed into law by the Argentine National Congress and today it is expressed with the First Building worker who gets said benefit.

This fact ratifies that UOCRA, together with its mystic and spirit of militancy, is able to keep its transforming capacity for the benefit of the building workers and their families.