The adjustment in the State that President Javier Milei is carrying out generated a conflict with the sector’s unions, especially the ATE, which threatened to carry out a series of measures in rejection of the massive layoffs of the National Public Administration bodies. In that sense, this week it is expected the “peaceful occupation” of ministries and official agenciesto which will be added a national strike on the first business day of April.
In different statements with the press and through his social networks, Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of ATE Nacional, expressed that “we have had to respond with a measure of force for the first business day of April” to the casualties of State employees. In this regard, this Wednesday there will be “massive and simultaneous admissions” to state agencies, which may become “peaceful occupations, if there are no responses from the Government”.
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To carry out the measure, both permanent employees, those hired temporarily and those laid off are expected to enter their workplaces at the same time. About, It is expected that the ministries where there were the most cuts will have the loudest demandsas is the case of the Ministry of Labor, where there were 523 layoffs in one month.
“The first admissions will be at 7 in the morning. If there is violence it will be ordered from the Casa Rosada. We all have the right to enter public offices as workers or citizens,” Aguiar said in dialogue with Clarion.
Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of ATE Nacional, warned that layoffs could reach 70,000.
In parallel, the union leader called the delegates from all the provinces that same day to continue the fight plan. Added to this, it is not ruled out that a street mobilization will be called for Friday in which the slogan would be not to abide by the anti-picketing protocol imposed by the Ministry of Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich.
Likewise, ATE defines its legal strategy, for which it brought together its team of lawyers with the idea of advancing in a criminal complaint against the president for considering the dismissals “arbitrary”. “The decision to kick out 70,000 people for no reason could be put on Milei. It is violating rights that are typified in criminal law, such as protection against arbitrary dismissal, contemplated in article 14 bis of the Constitution. He and his officials could end up in prison“Aguiar expressed to The nation.
ATE confirmed a national strike against the layoffs announced by Milei: “He will not be able to lay off 70,000 state workers”
During the meeting with the legal advisors of the Boards of Directors, the steps to follow were also outlined and the union action plan was ratified. “The level of attack on the rights of all state workers It is very serious and unprecedented“Aguiar stressed. “The Government has decided to break, in its core part, the legal system in force in our country, a violation of constitutionally enshrined guarantees,” he added.
“We ratify a growing fight plan with direct action measures that will deepen throughout the country. Faced with the massive nature of the layoffs and the dark and clandestine mechanisms to implement them“We need to face them in a coordinated manner,” he concluded.
From ATE, they also reported that progress is being made in different presentations before international Human Rights organizations“in the face of non-compliance that may occur on the part of the Argentine State or the violation of the treaties to which it is subscribed, while work is a fundamental human right for the realization of other human rights, such as Health, Education , food and decent housing”.