“He The government that declared war on us nine months ago is not going through its best moment, and we have to continue hitting it. We have to move from resistance to attack to avoid new mass layoffs at the end of the month,” said Rodolfo Aguiar, Secretary General of National ATE. And he added: “We will not tolerate one more illegal dismissal.. If this State still provides services, it is thanks to the almost superhuman effort and sacrifice of its workers throughout the country.”
In a massive assembly, more than a thousand delegates voted this afternoon in favor of the strike that in the City will include work stoppages, withdrawals from workplaces starting at noon and a soup kitchen in front of the Casa Rosada. In each of the provinces, the modality of the protests in their districts will be defined.
“We must continue to call for maximum unity from all sectors. State workers will not save themselves alone”said Aguiar and he drew a parallel with what happened during the Cambiemos government: “Macri lost at the polls because he had previously lost in the streets. It is with popular mobilization that we have to continue building the defeat of Milei and its Government.”
Layoffs in the State: ATE mobilizes against possible new layoffs
In the next few hours the work destiny of almost 65 thousand people who are currently under contract in the State and they were renewed for only three months. ATE has denounced that the Government plans to cancel these contracts on September 30.
According to figures collected from the Argentine Integrated Pension System (SIPA)the decline in public sector wage employment Since November 2023 it is 37,561 positions less work. The latest INDEC report revealed that Unemployment rose to 7.6% in the second quarter of this year.
The owner of ATE He stated that in the Government “They cannot hide the loss of popular support that the President and his administration have had,” which, he said, is partly due to the union measures that the state employees have taken “incessantly” since December 10. Since the libertarian took officethe loss of purchasing power of state workers which already exceeds 30%.
The cuts in the number of state employees carried out by the national administration could be deepened if the adjustment is transferred to the provinces and municipalities. Last week, Milei asked the governors to cut US$60 billion in their districts. In this regard, Aguiar said: “After the presentation of the 2025 Budget, there is no doubt that the adjustment will be deepened in the provinces and municipalities. On this occasion, the forceful measure must be general in nature and include all areas of the State. Hundreds of thousands of provincial and municipal state employees have been impoverished in recent times.”
ATE asked the courts to declare the chapter on public employment unconstitutional
It should be remembered that at the beginning of the month, the union filed a lawsuit to declare the articles of the Constitution unconstitutional Law Bases which modify the regime of availability in the public sector to prevent the Government from being able to dismiss even permanent employees. In this context, the National Court of First Instance of Labor N°37 has already declared its jurisdiction to deal with the case.
According to a writing to which he had access Scope, the union that leads Rodolfo Aguiar filed a complaint with the National Labor Court the illegality of the implementation of the articles 11 of Law 25,164 (replaced by art. 52 of Law 27,742) and 14 of the same law, as well as its regulations (art. 51 of Decree 695/2024, which replaces art. 11 of Annex I of Decree 1421/2002).
The union assures that Its application affects the right to stability in public employment since arbitrary dismissals by the national government are allowed. “The Ley Bases annihilates the right to stability in public employment. The unconstitutionality of this rule is manifestis contrary to article 14 bis of the fundamental law of our nation,” said Aguiar.
The final approval of the megaproject enables the ruling party to make a total of 125,000 workers availableaccording to official sources who told this newspaper, who could eventually be fired. These are those who are currently part of the permanent plant of the State. The new framework establishes that an employee can enter the regime If the organization exceeds the “optimal staffing level” required.
“He switch to automatic availabilitywith the resulting reduction in wages and the loss of rights derived from the public employment relationship, generates a situation for the affected workers serious and irreparable harm “because they are deprived of their jobs and their income, finding themselves unable to provide for their families,” ATE denounced in the presentation.
The CGT will join the university march
Amid the escalation of union conflict with the Government, the CGT will join the new march that the universities will carry out the October 2nd next in rejection of the announcement of Javier Milei of applying a “total veto” to the law updating the university budget approved by the Senate. The labor union will announce its incorporation into this mobilization through a press conference to be held on Wednesday at 4 pm at the headquarters of Azopardo 802, union sources reported.
In light of Milei’s announcement, not yet finalized, to veto the rule passed on September 13, The organizations that make up the university community decided to carry out a strike on the 26th and 27th of this month and a “federal march” to Congress on October 2nd. The bill approved by the Senate requires the Executive Branch to update the budget allocations to cover operating, research and extension expenses at universities, and establishes that every two months the Government must adjust university budgets in accordance with inflation.
It will be the second federal university march against the Government After the massive mobilization to Plaza de Mayo that students, teachers, unions, legislators and opposition leaders carried out on April 23 in rejection of the budget cuts that had been implemented by the administration of Milei, and which should have been deactivated.
Source: Ambito
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