The Argentine-owned tire company that had opened in 1940 fired more than 900 workers on Wednesday, February 18, leaving them without a livelihood for their families.
Carlos Oroño, known as “Charly from FATE”, was moved during an interview on the C5N channel in which he recounted the struggle they have been carrying out and everything that this business measure implies for him and his co-workers, given that FATE has earned millions over the years.
“This hurts me a lot. I am left without a job and without medical coverage for my son who has a disability,” he said after the journalist’s question.
Charly is one of the main breadwinners in his home, where his partner, daughter and son live.
“The oldest, 20 years old, is looking for a job and hasn’t found a job for a while. She is demoralized but we try to support her and encourage her to study. Part of my salary will pay for her studies,” she comments from the factory door.
“It all has to do with how we organize ourselves to sustain the income that is already 14 months behind without an increase. My card has been exploited and we can’t make ends meet.”
And he adds, “I have my son with a disability and the remedies are becoming more and more expensive. One no longer knows where to turn in this situation.”
Charly has been at the plant for 13 years, plus 2 as outsourced maintenance personnel.
“As soon as I entered I had to fight for coverage for my son who was not expecting it. They wanted to leave him outside without it.”
He also denounced the closure of schools and the defunding of education in the Province of Buenos Aires, which directly affects his son.
In Crónica he added that there had been a renewal of machinery, so a crisis in the company cannot be alleged.
The interview ended with tears from the floor when Charly asked for time on the air: “Son, Nahuel, dad is here and he loves you very much. He is autistic, he wants to watch TV, and my partner asks him to please let him watch the news so he can see me here.”
Charly has a story behind the camera with his fight for Human Rights and against the military dictatorship. He is the son of missing people, and he takes photos of his loved ones every March 24.
It was a fundamental piece in FATE of reclaiming life, and making known, all those workers and administration workers of that factory who were detained-disappeared.
Their struggle has been going on for decades, and they have always stood firm for the workers as a whole.
With research work, he and other workers put together the banner promoted to make visible the years of dictatorship in the company in the March 24 march.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
