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ATE announced a 48-hour strike and assures that it will stop international trade - Infobae
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ATE anunció un paro de 48 horas y asegura que frenará el comercio internacional
La Asociación de Trabajadores del Estado (ATE) paralizará los mecanismos de acceso para exportar y se levantarán los controles zoofitosanitarios de importaciones
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March 25, 2024
The Association of State Workers (ATE) will paralyze access mechanisms for exports and zoophytosanitary controls on imports will be lifted
The general secretary of the union pointed out against the cuts made by the Government (ATE)
The Association of State Workers (ATE) will carry out a measure of force this Tuesday and Wednesday for the possible dismissal of employees of the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (SENASA). It will paralyze ports, airports and customs.
The strike was confirmed by the general secretary of ATE, Rodolfo Aguiar , who released a statement questioning president Javier Milei for threatening to fire 30% of SENASA's plant workers.
"Faced with the threat of applying a 30% cut to SENASA's functional plant, we have decided to initiate a forceful measure that will have a strong impact on the economy, completely stop international trade in our country, and we are not going to accept That we, the workers, be held responsible for the impact on exports. We are not going to allow illegal layoffs to take place,” said Aguiar.
In this framework, the union warned: "All controls at ports, airports and customs will be paralyzed, as well as inspection at all zoophytosanitary barriers in the country."
The strike will limit the entry of foreign currency for a few hours since it will stop exports and could cause unauthorized products to enter the country.
Although the government called joint meetings for this Monday to deactivate the strike, Aguiar assured that the force measure is not canceled.
“ Javier Milei with this maneuver you are trying to get us to lift the ATE strike and that is not going to happen. We also inform you that we will reject your offer again if it does not guarantee the full recovery of the lost purchasing power. In just three months his government has destroyed salaries and pensions,” the leader said in his X account.
“In addition, do not forget that the proposal must contemplate the reinstatement of all laid-off workers and the automatic renewal of the 70,000 contracts that expire at the end of the month. We do not believe that in today's negotiations there can be any agreement. You are not going to change and neither are we. You will continue trying to weaken the State to its minimum to guarantee the interests of its constituents, the corporations. And we will continue to deepen the fight. You'll see. We are going to stop it with strike and mobilization! “He added.
The protest will have its epicenter in the health controls that are carried out when entering or leaving the country
Aguiar considered it “inadmissible” that an adjustment be made in “an organization that fulfills an essential role, that has always been self-financing and has also generated million-dollar resources for the State every year.”
“Faced with labor contracts that expire on March 31 and the threat of massive layoffs in the Public Administration, the state is going to multiply protests in all ministries and organizations in the coming days,” concluded the union leader.
For her part, Mercedes Cabezas , Deputy Secretary of ATE Nacional, said: “We must remember that this organization not only controls imports and exports of food , dairy and live animal products, but also controls the health and quality of the agri-food that reaches the table of all Argentines and a cut in personnel in these areas not only attacks public policies, but also attacks the population in general in the broad sense, understanding that it exposes each person to health risk. "one of the inhabitants of our Argentine soil."
In addition, ATE sent a formal note to the Secretary of Labor, Employment and Social Security, Julio Cordero, in which they point out: “This call is motivated by the announcements of dismissals of workers in the National Public Sector by the Government, and the silence and lack of precise information in the particular case of SENASA, added to the request by the National Executive Branch to cut 30% of the Agency's annual budget, where thousands of colleagues would be left without work, added to the paralysis "
"We are convinced that, if we intend to exponentially increase exports and open up food imports, as was recently announced, it is necessary to have a SENASA well equipped with resources, both human and financial, to undertake health inspection tasks and maintain the good zoo-phytosanitary status that our country has,” they add.
More layoffs
In short, it is worth remembering that on Friday the union denounced the dismissal of 1,200 ANSES employees by the national government.“At ANSES we are not going to sugarcoat reality or tolerate more layoffs. In the early hours of today many colleagues received dismissal telegrams. The Government is trying to destroy the State and we have to resist. We cannot allow them to disarm it and neither can all the policies that benefit and protect the population,” they expressed from the Association of State Workers, in a statement they published on the social network X.
Likewise, ATE sources assured that the layoffs are beginning to be felt in the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), in the National Geographic Institute and in the National Meteorological Service.
