Workers at the Garrahan Hospital are in solidarity with 44 of their colleagues, including leaders from the Professional Association of Technicians and Specialists (APyT) and the ATE Internal Board, against whom Mariano Pirozzo, the hospital's administrator appointed by Health Minister Mario Lugones, has opened disciplinary proceedings for participating in the labor struggle that resulted in a 61% salary increase. The support we have from within the hospital is total, and it is joined by the immense support of the families who were at the forefront of the struggle at all times. However, after that, incredibly, the hospital's administrator (who is not a pediatrician nor familiar with the public health system), Mariano Pirozzo, appointed by the controversial Minister Lugones, initiated disciplinary proceedings against 44 hospital workers, starting with their main leaders. They want to intimidate the workers, sanction the spokespersons, and send a message to all sectors of our people who fight: fighting for justice has consequences, they emphasize. And they add: "we are not giving up: We need your support this Wednesday, November 26th, at 13:00 at the entrance to the Hospital." Many union, social, and political organizations have given their support to a campaign against the disciplinary proceedings at Garrahan, which we want to make national."Meanwhile, under the slogan "Let's take care of those who care for children," the Professional Association of Technicians and Specialists (APyT) also calls for an "abrazo" (hug): "it took many months and a huge social movement, but we were right as a health team and they had to recognize our 61% salary increase: historic. We ask for your support in this hug to resist the attack together." Meanwhile, Alejandro Lipcovich, General Secretary of the state union, stated: "the government cannot hide that workers achieved a great salary victory, securing a 61% increase when their own salary offers did not exceed 2%. The disciplinary proceedings against those of us who were at the forefront of the struggle are precisely a punishment for breaking the salary cap that Milei has been agreeing to with the union bureaucracy. We voted in assembly to support those of us who are being investigated while launching a petition for massive signing." And he added: "both Director Pirozzo and the Board of Directors seek to criminalize the protest and thus cloud the conclusions of a great victory against the government. They are mistaken if they believe that by investigating the delegates and activists they will divide the workers or separate us from a very genuine demand." "Vengefully, they seek to discipline a hospital that did not back down in the fight and wrung out a historic wage increase that they did not want to give," they state from ATE. Both ATE and APyT leaders and grassroots members are included. Vengefully, they seek to discipline a hospital that did not back down in the fight and wrung out a historic wage increase they did not want to give. The health workers of the Garrahan Hospital are calling for a symbolic "abrazo" (hug) at the headquarters of the country's main pediatric institution (Combate de los Pozos 1881, CABA) this Wednesday, November 26th, at 13:00. Meanwhile, APyT, which is making the call under the slogan, states: "they want to intimidate the workers, sanction the spokespersons and send a signal to all the sectors of our people who fight: fighting for justice has reprisals." From ANRed. This is how they called for the "Abrazo al Garrahan" (Combate de los Pozos 1881, CABA) for this Wednesday, 26/11 at 13 hours from the ATE Garrahan Internal Board: "to the organizations and workers who have expressed solidarity with the Garrahan struggle, we ask for your support. Minister Lugones and the officials he arbitrarily appointed opened 44 disciplinary proceedings against workers who were part of the struggle of the country's main pediatric hospital."
