The current economic policy, marked by the indiscriminate opening of imports, the irresponsibility in the administration of foreign trade, and the total absence of an industrial policy, is pulverizing the national productive fabric.
The metalworkers' union stated that "since the assumption of the National Government, our sector has already registered the loss of 26,000 jobs" and warned that "behind each number, there are families, communities, and regional economies brutally hit".
"We have witnessed the closure of historic and essential metallurgical companies such as Whirlpool, Essen, SKF Autopartes, KTM Motos, as well as numerous battery and autoparts factories," they emphasized in the document.
The PJ expressed its rejection of the "labor precariousness of the IMF"
In this regard, the union pointed out that "these companies employed, produced, and generated employment between tens and hundreds of thousands of workers in the metallurgical value chain and the rest of the Argentine industry".
In this context, the UOM accused the Government of being "responsible for allowing an uncontrolled foreign trade that ravages our industry" and that "the indiscriminate opening of imports does not foster competition or efficiency", but rather "destroys the national industry".
It also targeted the business sector by warning that "we cannot fail to point out the silent complicity of those segments of business leadership that, out of pettiness or fear, do not raise their voices to demand an active policy for the defense of national production and employment".
"Their inaction makes them accomplices of this true industrycide that is dismantling Argentina's productive capacity and condemning our workers to unemployment," it added.
Finally, the UOM called for the unity of workers "to defend each job, each factory, and the dignity of our families" and not to allow "the productive future of the nation to be dismantled".
