2024-04-04 02:50:00
The Association of State Workers (ATE) voted to hold a new national strike for this Fridaywithin the framework of a plan to combat layoffs in the sector established by the president’s government Javier Miley. After various protest measures this Wednesday, with the epicenter in the Ministry of Labor, it was decided in an assembly to call for another strike.
“We are going to fight him and we are going to take out the chainsaw,” said the head of ATE Nacional, Rodolfo Aguiar., and highlighted that “this weekend thousands and thousands of telegrams of dismissals were received, in all cases illegal and arbitrary.” As he highlighted, “There are more than 11 thousand layoffs reliably reported throughout the country”. In radio statements, the man from Rio Negro stressed that the peaceful occupations in ministries and public organizations this Wednesday took place “despite the fact that The government decided to fill all public offices with police“.
Along these lines, Aguiar had stated that the government goes “for the heads of the 70 thousand hired”. And he added: “For this reason, in the followingnoon in a plenary session of more than a thousand delegates we are going to define the action plan in depth and we are going to propose a new measure of general force before the end of this week.” “Milei decided to outsource the adjustment: Techint now has the chainsaw, because the Secretary of Labor (Julio Cordero) is a Human Resources manager of that business group. But we are going to fight him and we are going to take out the chainsaw,” he added.
When justifying the entry of the laid off to their workplaces, Aguiar stated that “the communication of the dismissal is absolutely inefficient in legal terms” and highlighted that public employment has high rates of precariousness. “This is absolute responsibility for all the efforts that took place at the Casa Rosada and they did not provide a solution to this labor fraud of 70 thousand workers who should be permanently employed: there is no gnocchi here and the people are beginning to realize it,” added Aguiar.
Finally, Aguiar said: “The most expensive gnocchi the State has is someone who took office on December 10 and spends 80% of his working day playing on social networks”. The presence of President Javier Milei on This Wednesday, he spent approximately 2 hours on the social network and “liked” 162 posts.
The Undersecretary of Labor, Mariana Hortal Sueldo, resigned amid protests over the layoffs
Day of struggle this Wednesday, with epicenter in Labor
During the morning, there were a series of conflicts, both in the Ministry of Labor and in the National Institute once morest Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia. After struggling with security forces, state workers entered the INADI building, while at the National Secretariat of Labor there was retention of tasks by laid-off employees and a protest carried out by ATE.
The security operation that was mounted in the vicinity of INADI He tried unsuccessfully to stop the workers who entered the organization, crossing the turnstiles. In dialogue with Argentine Newspart of the staff assured that they notified “almost 40 layoffs” and that The police, who were present at the scene “had orders to repress”. Many of the employees found out regarding their termination at the same time and others received, via institutional email, notification of the termination of their contracts.
One of the testimonies that went viral was that of a woman, Inadi employee, who had started working in 2008 and who was months away from retiring. “In my file I have the thanks of all the people that I benefited with my efforts. I am left without income until I retire,” said the woman. For her part, the workers of the former Ministry of Labor of the Nation, which is currently one of the secretariats that depend on the Ministry of Human Capital, decided to carry out a protest with retention of tasks by 14 employees who were dismissed without reason.
The small table of the CGT postponed the definition of a strike once morest Milei and confirmed the mobilization of May 1
Layoffs in Conicet with a strong police operation
This Wednesday, in addition, at the door of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) were seen dozens of workers in a long line to find out if they had been fired or might come in to carry out their usual tasks. The employees were forced, given the police deployment that surrounded the Scientific Pole, to give their first and last name, one by one, to verify if they were on the list of dismissed personnel.
In this case, ATE, in its official account of the social network denounced “a militarized CONICET“and repudiated “the intimidation once morest the workers.” “Today’s procedure, following standing in line for a block and a half, involved going down to the basement and, if you were fired, the police accompanied you to remove your things“said one of the scientists who was at the scene.
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