The Government continues its “chainsaw plan” also in public employment. The new attack is led by the new Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorni, and the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger.
According to the government, 58,797 positions have been eliminated in centralized and decentralized agencies, key public state companies and other sectors since he took office. Now exact figures were not specified, but it was indicated that it would reach “an additional 10%”, which gives a figure close to 30 thousand workers.
If in the first two years of management the layoffs were concentrated in the centralized administration, now the axis would be the decentralized organizations. Among them AFIP, ANMAT, CONICET, INDEC, ANSES, ENARGAS, INTI, INTA and ENACOM. It is not that attacks and cuts have not occurred in these places, but that the attack would be harsher. They also want to privatize companies like Nucleoeléctrica, which would mean more blows.
That is what the government proposes, of course.
The first question is, what are the unions going to do? UPCN did not say a word. It stands to reason. Until now it has been complicit in the adjustment policy, in exchange for preserving part of its apparatus. Only part, because the chainsaw has been more merciless than the bureaucrats who answer to Andrés Rodríguez were used to.
In the case of ATE, he said that he will advance the force measure that he had planned “for when the labor reform is discussed in Congress.”
Rodolfo Aguiar was spicy with his statements. “You have to know that the state is also going for it. The public sector cannot resist more adjustments. We are not going to tolerate any layoffs and we demand the automatic renewal of all the contracts that expire on December 31.”
The issue is that there is a lot of distance between words and actions. Partly because the guild’s firepower is limited; in part because it does not propose actions and fighting plans that can join forces against the government. For example, calling on other sectors that have been facing adjustments, some belonging to the CTA, others not.
The government has been emboldened, partly by its electoral victory won by Trump, partly by the passivity of the union leadership and Peronism.
These layoffs must be rejected. It is a lie that it is about “gnocchi” or “deficit spending.” We are talking about qualified personnel who support science, statistics, health, and medication control, in an increasingly backward and dependent country. Where there are social crimes with fentanyl, due to the state of the roads or public health. More adjustments cannot be allowed: we must stop them and recover everything lost.
Milei’s plan, which includes labor reform that attacks “private” workers, is an opportunity to unite all the claims. The left proposes assemblies in workplaces and offices, and a plan of struggle convened by the union centers or imposed from below.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
