The public workers’ union will march to Plaza de Mayo starting at noon, where they will organize a soup kitchen. UTEP will join the strike.
The Association of State Workers (ATE) will carry out a new national strike with mobilization to the Plaza de Mayo to demand better working conditions and in the face of the “threat of a third wave of layoffs massive strikes at the end of the month.” The strike will be joined by the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP).
Following a meeting with the executive committee of UTEP, the holder of ATE, Rodolfo Aguiar said: “It is very important for state employees to know that we are not alone in this difficult fight. against a Government that wants to exterminate us. At this time, conflict is growing, as is the level of unity among workers throughout the country. Tomorrow we will stop the Government’s intention to continue firing thousands of workers“he said in a statement.
In the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the measure will have “work stoppage, withdrawal from workplaces from midday and a soup kitchen in front of the Casa Rosada.” For their part, each province will define the modality of the protests in their districts.
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On Monday, ATE decided to go ahead with the measure after a massive meeting with more than a thousand delegates who supported the strike. “We have to continue calling for the maximum unity of all sectors. State workers are not going to save themselves alone,” said Aguiar.
UETP will join the national ATE strike
A delegation from the UTEP He met with ATE representatives and decided to join the state workers’ strike.
“It was a very fruitful meeting. We must to claim that the real opposition to this Government has been the people in the streets with the organized labor movement. In these 10 months there has not been a single week in which there have not been days of struggle. We are preparing for tomorrow to accompany the strike and the mobilization to Plaza de Mayo repudiating any layoffs and low wages that lag far behind inflation. We must continue to deepen unity on the path to building another policy that resolves the true tragedies of our people.“, said Ramiro “Vasco” Berdesegar, Secretary of Organization of UTEP.
Layoffs in the State: ATE mobilizes against possible new layoffs
In the next few hours it could be define the work destiny of almost 65 thousand people which are currently under contract with the State and were renewed for only three months. ATE has denounced that the Government plans to cancel these contracts on September 30.
According to figures collected by the Argentine Integrated Pension System (SIPA), the drop in salaried employment in the public sector since November 2023 is 37,561 fewer jobs. 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 “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 state employees have taken “incessantly” since December 10. Since the libertarian took office, the loss of purchasing power of state workers has already exceeded 30%.
Source: Ambito
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