Tierra del Fuego lives weeks of tension. The National Government, following the dictates of the last IMF document, announced measures that affect the “industrial promotion”, including tariffs on different imported electronic products. From the business sectors the answer was “warm.” Some like Mirgor are already diversifying their production and could adapt to full import, others such as Newsan who have plants in many provinces, discuss what is best for them. Today they have become assemblies that work with imported supplies and everything will depend on their “cost benefit” analysis.
But for thousands of workers, especially textile and metallurgical, it implies a latent threat to thousands of jobs. The “Industrial Promotion” (Law 19,640) was created by Lanusse in 1972 in another context of litigation with Chile, to populate and activate the island. Its elimination attempt generated conflicts such as in 1982, where workers and employer sectors participated, but remained until today. The great winners have been the business groups, but if they leave one month to the other who will pay the consequences will be the working people.
Although it implies only 0.2% of GDP, for Milei it appears as a symbolic measure of the “tax reform” requested by the fund. The provincial government ensures that it will imply a loss in its coffers of 80 billion pesos annually.
In that framework, a protest headed by the UOM Rio Grande began in the first days of May, with an indeterminate unemployment in defense of “the sovereignty, the rights and the jobs.” Different sectors of the community have joined the protest, including the traditional parties that have applied the adjustments before and after the agreement with the fund. In fact, Fuegian metallurgues “live” in conflict for frozen peers, dismissals, precariousness; also textiles. In the case of teaching today began a new stage of measures convened by Sutef.
This Monday Oscar Martínez, leader of the local UOM, confirmed the unemployment unemployment and rejected the request for “mandatory conciliation” made by the Mirgor company.
In recent days there have been important mobilizations, concentrations in the doors of the large plants and a provincial strike was convened for this Wednesday, May 21. Promises to be an important day of struggle. Recall that despite its “youth” as a province, it has a tradition of struggle that gave combative days for example in the 1990s.
Given that hot climate, despite the “end of the world”, the national government does not conform to the adjustment. As he does in Buenos Aires, he also wants to hold it with repressive threats. That is why the possibility of Bullrich activates the “Unified Command” and the “Antipiquetes Protocol” circulated in the last hours, in the face of Route 3. That is, the use of federal forces against demonstrations.
Martínez (UOM) said that “they are putting together anti -picket groups to send to the province, here we are with tanned leather to defend our rights.”
We must reject any type of protest criminalization and support the labor and popular claim. You cannot trust Caputo or Chernjovsky’s cousin, or those who ruled the last 40 years. In the streets and from below, with the solidarity of the metallurgical ones and the labor movement throughout the country, any attack on jobs, salary and living conditions of thousands of inhabitants of the island must be defeated. That is the only social force that can reorganize the economy at the service of the great majorities and not of the parasitic entrepreneurs.
Pablo Anino column in the red circle (radius with you).
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
