Following the words of President
Javier Milei
, who this Tuesday at the closing of the IEFA forum spoke of the fall of 70 thousand State contracts and 50 thousand employees fired, the
ATE union announced a "strike and mobilization
throughout the country."
This was stated by the general secretary of the Association of State Workers (ATE)
Rodolfo Aguiar
, in a post on the social network
The reaction came after Milei's speech.
"We fired 50,000 public employees. Not only that, but contracts were terminated. And notice that more contracts are being terminated. And 70,000 contracts are going to be terminated," the President confirmed regarding public employees.
And Aguiar launched the strike: ""Look, President Javier Milei, you are not going to be able to lay off 70,000 state employees as you would like.
"Today protests multiplied throughout the country and conflict in the State will continue to increase."
"Argentina is going through a stage of transition. We workers are forced to rethink some of the slogans that we embraced in the '90s in the face of a similar political process. The fact that someone like Paolo Rocca has more officials in the Government than his political force (LLA) that won the elections, shows us that we are called to reflect," Aguiar remarked in X.
"In the 90s, we knew how to embrace the slogan: 'Strengthen the State to liberate the Nation', and it turns out that the strength or weakness of the State depends on who looks at it. At this moment, if the Argentine Business Association (AEA) looks at it, The State is getting stronger. However, if we look at it, it is weakening. And when we say that its policies try to destroy the State, in reality what is happening is that the State of the people is being destroyed and the State is being built. of the large business groups. The time has come to embrace new slogans, perhaps that of: 'Democratize the State to build the Nation,'" said the ATE unionist.
STOP AND MOBILIZATION OF ATE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Look President @JMilei, you are not going to be able to fire 70,000 state employees as you would like.
Today protests multiplied throughout the country and conflict in the State will continue to increase.
Argentina is experiencing a stage of… pic.twitter.com/PhfURsVlFy
— Rodolfo Aguiar (@rodoaguiar) March 26, 2024
"These are times to resist but also to have to propose. They want to corner us so that we defend jobs and let's not talk about the fact that we face the largest salary adjustment in recent times and with it, the serious deterioration of all the living conditions of the workers. workers and retirees. We are going to continue fighting and multiplying protests to prevent any illegal and unjustified layoff in the public administration" Aguiar concluded with his long message titled "Strike and mobilization of ATE throughout the country.
The strongest state union had stopped a strike that was planned to last 48 hours.
This morning, Aguiar sent a direct threat to the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo.
"It's not going to be something that we throw Caputo out with the mobilization, he should prepare himself," Aguiar said.
However, one hour after attacking the head of the Treasury Palace, he announced that the forceful measure had been temporarily stopped to open a negotiation session with SENASA.
News in development.
D.S.