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ATE will receive Javier Milei with a strike in Río Negro and launched a “national day of struggle” for April 30
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ATE will receive Javier Milei with a strike in Río Negro and launched a “national day of struggle” for April 30

The State Workers Association (ATE) confirm this wednesday “national day of struggle” for April 30, before the general strike that the CGT announced for May 9. In addition, the union recalled that this Friday the Río Negro branch will receive Javier Milei with a strike.

“The unions are called to become a true opposition to this Government and the adjustment plan it is trying to carry out,” said Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of ATE.

The “National Day of Struggle” on Tuesday, April 30 will be “against adjustment policies, wage freezes, mass layoffs and attempts to close organizations in the public sector.”

From the union they indicated that in the face of the repeated attacks by the national government, “a Previous stopover before the mobilization of May 1 and the general strike of the 9th.convened by the workers’ confederations and to which the union will adhere”.

Rodolfo Aguiar in the plenary session that organized a national day of struggle for April 30. Photo ATE

On the other hand, this Friday ATE of Río Negro will hold a strike with mobilization for Milei’s arrival in Bariloche, where he will participate in the Llao Llao Forum.

“Milei has to be declared persona non grata as soon as she sets foot in Río Negro and on Friday the protests have to multiply throughout the province,” said Aguiar.

ATE’s criticism of Milei and a call for attention from the governors

The general secretary’s statements occurred in the plenary session that determined the day of struggle for April 30, a meeting that was filled with abundant questions against Javier Milei after the layoffs and cuts in the public sector.

“The Government’s economic program is destroying us all. Not only is it leaving thousands of workers on the streets and destroying the salaries of state employees, retirees, men and women, but the living conditions of the entire population are seriously deteriorating. people,” said Aguiar against the libertarian management.

In addition, he maintained that “the action plan in the public sector cannot be stopped” and added: “The violation of rights is becoming more serious. The decision to renew contracts again only for 90 days translates into re-precarization of all State workers”.

Then he made a called with a tone of complaint to the governors and mayors: He asked them to “wake up” because “they are screwing all the provinces and municipalities.”

“The governors and mayors have to wake up. They are screwing all the provinces and municipalities. At this moment in Argentina we are facing a sharing of losses and a nationalization of profits. Sales are falling and all co-participating taxes are falling. , while a national tax such as the Country Tax is the only one that showed a growth of more than 300% year-on-year,” he noted.

The forceful measure had been gaining strength two weeks ago, when Aguiar himself, as a result of the layoffs in the state sector, anticipated that the State Workers Association was “determined to fight.”

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Security and tension operation at INADI.

Days before, during a march in which there were clashes with the Buenos Aires security forces, he had said: “We cannot naturalize that more absolutely fundamental rights cannot be exercised, such as the right to strike.” That day of strike, on April 3, there were also incidents at INADI, one of the departments where there were massive influxes of workers.

That same demonstration, which took place after Easter and in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy, a few meters from the Casa Rosada, the protesters wanted to occupy the street and the troops activated the anti-picketing protocol.

“The attempts to instill fear are to discipline everyone, to try to demobilize citizens and discourage them from demanding their rights,” Aguiar then stressed, who repeatedly questioned the dismissals in the public sector and requested audits and justifications. . for those outings.