The public employees of Argentina They started this Tuesday a 36 hour strike with a march from the Obelisk of Buenos Aires towards him Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State to protest low wages, layoffs and unemployment policies cuts carried out by the Government of Javier Milei.
The State Workers Association (ATE), the largest union of public employees in the country, called the protest to “prevent the State from ending up usurped by large business groups,” according to a statement from this union.
“People are beginning to become aware of the scam. They lied to them, there were no ‘gnocchi’ (public employees who do not fulfill tasks) nor an oversized State. This Government protects and embraces the caste,” said the head of ATE, Rodolfo Aguiarin the note.
Milei has eliminated 28,500 public jobs
Air, rail and underground transport workers in Buenos Aires are expected to join this strike starting at midnight on Wednesday, while bus drivers will join this strike on Thursday, mainly from the metropolitan area of the Argentine capital.
The presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adornitoday described as “privileged” the workers who participate in the strike and protests, about whom he said they defend their own “benefits.” “Those who stop are privileged, those who can afford to stop, because good Argentines do not have that possibility and we also do not want to stop,” said the spokesperson.
The Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, which leads Federico Sturzeneggeris responsible for implementing cutback policies and shrinking public organizations and companies launched when Milei joined the Governmentin December 2023.
28,500 public jobs have been eliminated, a reduction of almost 10% of the workforce
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec), since then some 28,500 public jobswhich means a reduction of almost 10% of the state workforce, and that in August it reached 309,849 people.
In recent days, Milei issued a warning to 10,000 officials of the State to begin their retirement procedures and announced that 40,000 employees with temporary contracts They must undergo a suitability exam to be able to continue in their job.
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“They want to evaluate us, as if our years in precarious positions were worth nothing, They tell us to retire as if we were no longer useful.all while they freeze our salaries to shrink the State more and more,” said the ATE union in its statement. Sources from the Ministry of Deregulation have assured that The Government will continue cutting public spending and staffing to “respect society’s mandate expressed at the polls last year.”
“The invitation for public employees to retire, who are of age to do so and in the process of elimination and reduction of state agencies, will make it possible to make permanent employees available (permanent contracts),” official sources added.
Added to this situation of workers in official organizations are the privatization plans for public companieswhere they are expected to eliminate about 100,000 jobs in more than 40 companies, Milei has stated.
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