In a world crossed by hegemonic disputes and growing demand for our products, it is completely false that the only way out is to submit to the dictates of the Monetary Fund and the international financial capital plunging millions deeper and deeper into misery and deepening dependency and national backwardness.
The Impact on Private Industry
He manufacturing sector and of durable goods It is one of the hardest hit. Numerous companies, from large corporations to SMEs, have announced the reduction of personnel or the definitive cessation of activities in different provinces of the country.
The appliance firm Whirlpool closed its plant Pilaraffecting more than 200 workersarguing the “boom in imported products”. However, Whirlpool It is not a workshop or a family business. It is a large multinational that has more than 40,000 workers all over the world and had sales for more than USD 17 billion last year.
Essen It is the “largest in the world” factory of cast aluminum parts with glass-ceramic enamel and for 45 years they have manufactured more than 30 million pots and pans. In recent days it has separated more than 30 employees in Santa Fesignaling a drop in production and the beginning of imports.
The owner of Essen had commented to journalists that the company was growing above the rates recorded last year, but acknowledged that it was showing double-digit expansion in other countries where it works.
The crisis extends to the value chain of the automotive industry y textile. The factory Dana auto parts closed its plant in Saint Louis dismissing 50 workers and closures and layoffs were reported in textile factories in Currents y Land of Fire.
The adjustment also reaches the sector of services and commercewith companies like Cencosud (retail) executing cuts and fintech Uala laying off more than a hundred employees in the region, with a strong impact on Argentina.
Unacceptable truce
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the largest union center in the country, maintains its participation in the dialogue tables with the National Government y the business leadersparticularly within the framework of the so-called “May Pact” o “May Council”. Why don’t you call union assemblies to see what millions of workers think about the industry and labor reform? Why not announce a fighting plan, which should be organized now and which cannot wait for further delays?
Redouble the resistance
Although it is intended to establish the idea that passivity prevails and that there is no resistance, workers from different sectors have been fighting to maintain their jobs, as in the factory Ilva in it Pilar Industrial Park. Also in food Georgalos and in Dry. Companies where there were attacks, but they resisted and sought to surround their fight with solidarity. In another sector we see the tireless fight that became a national flag, the fight of the health workers of the Garrahan Hospitalwhich was surrounded by solidarity of the entire community despite the Government’s campaign to discredit their fight and defense of public health.
These are some of the examples that show that there are forces to fight against the plan mercy y Caputo. In many of these fightsthe left He was part of it, in the streets with his groups, always seeking the coordination of all sectors in struggle.
A path of your own
The “theory” is that, if employers have advantages for laying off, they will formally hire more workers. It’s a lie. Whenever business owners make profits, the working class loses.
The problem of formal employment is real. There are millions of workers in the informal sector, without bonuses, vacations and other rights. Faced with this situation, the only way out is not to further enslave the working class.
In the Left Fronthe PTS-FITU of Myriam Bregman y Nicolás Del Caño For years he has been considering another way out: reduction of working hours. It is not a proposal for the tribune, but a realistic proposal that could guarantee a million new jobs with rights from the outset.
Implies confront the power of big business. There, among those billionaires, there is no crisis. Large publicly traded companies increased their profits by 300% throughout 2024, while millions became even poorer. Furthermore, the 50 richest people in the country they saw their growth fortune at $31.5 billion of dollars since 2020.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
