This is an extraordinary victory of the Garrahan Hospital struggle, which moved Argentina for months. We were not given anything: we won it by organizing, fighting, with the methods of our working class, united without distinction of task or sector. Long live the Garrahan struggle! At the same time, it is a defeat for Milei, Lugones and the Garrahan management, who systematically tried to break us without succeeding, — communicated today from ATE Garrahan. The Garrahan Hospital Directorate announced a 61% increase on the basic allowance (basic salary plus functional dedication). Without admitting it, the government is beginning to partially apply the law passed in Congress. In the official publication, they state that the bonus remains. Without admitting it, the government is beginning to partially apply the law passed in Congress. It is, at the same time, a defeat for Milei, Lugones and the Garrahan management, who systematically tried to break us without succeeding. In a country with 1% collective bargaining, the Garrahan strike broke that ceiling through tireless struggle. General assemblies without distinction of affiliation, task or sector; strikes; mobilizations; festivals; visibility actions and a host of other events that had the workers of the hospital as protagonists, accompanied by unprecedented popular support. There is a total contrast between the results obtained by the Garrahan method (combative unions, unity in the general assembly, struggle plans) and the ruin of falling wages and layoffs when union bureaucracy dominates. Naturally, this giant victory does not hide the atrocities committed and still being committed by the Garrahan management. We are preparing for the struggle for working conditions, which are bad and seek to worsen through labor reform. But we do it from a historic victory that we deserve to celebrate. We demand the annulment of the cases against Pirozzo, against ATE and APyT, which seek to criminalize protest. We demand the annulment of savage deductions for exercising the right to strike. The first payment will include a retroactive payment for October's salary.
