It is necessary to have permanent coordination among all working sectors that are fighting and resisting the onslaught, fighting side by side for every right or conquest with common actions, agreed upon in democratic instances that promote the leading role of workers. Most of the governors have already given their support against the workers, even those who until yesterday presented themselves as opponents. For this reason, they consider it 'necessary to respond with the tools of struggle such as the General Strike with a mobilization, a plan of struggle debated and democratically resolved in assemblies and plenums, with the perspective of a general strike that gathers the necessary force to stop this new wave of attacks against our interests as workers.' 'There are the examples of Garrahan and Aceiteros showing us the way to achieve victories!' they claim. It is necessary to respond with the tools of struggle such as the General Strike with a mobilization, a plan of struggle debated and democratically resolved in assemblies and plenums. In this context, they highlight the resistance against these attacks from the government of Javier Milei and the employers: 'in the country and in the Northern Zone, there is resistance to the attacks: the workers of Ilva who continue to camp, the strikes of SUTEBA Tigre and the Multicolor, which affect all of PBA's teaching staff, the struggle of Georgalos, the strikes at Fate and at Bedtime, against the impunity in the face of Alan Paz's death, the resistance of the workers of INTI, among others. 'There are the examples of Garrahan and Aceiteros showing us the way to achieve victories!' they remark. Convoked by SUTEBA Tigre with the slogan 'Down with the government's and employers' labor reform,' the meeting will bring together various worker and popular organizations this Saturday, December 6, from 14 to 18, at EP N°15 Maestra Celina (Voena 1750) in the Tigre locality of El Talar. 'Large corporations and the government are taking advantage of Milei's electoral victory to go on the offensive with a Labor Reform that destroys rights won in years of struggle. Everything is being called into question: severance pay, working hours, collective agreements, the right to strike, and all acquired rights – the call begins. Meanwhile, our wages have been practically frozen for months, losing to inflation and with thousands of layoffs. This is the way to prevent the advances of the government and the employers. Among the first convokers and adherents are: SUTEBA Tigre by mandate voted in the Body of Delegates; Internal Commission of Linde Plant Pacheco; Assembly of Madygraf under worker control; Internal Commission of Bed Time; Internal Commission of Lustramax; Internal Commission of Jumbo Pilar; Delegates of the Internal Commission of Frigorífico Rioplatense; Delegates of Line 60; Union of Municipal Workers of Vte. In the Northern Zone, we are promoting spaces and instances of unity, solidarity meetings, common actions with the chemists at Linde, the drivers of 60-UTA, Georgalos, with the teaching staff at SUTEBA Tigre and others. 'Large corporations and the government are taking advantage of Milei's electoral victory to go on the offensive with a Labor Reform that destroys rights won in years of struggle. Everything is being called into question: severance pay, working hours, collective agreements, the right to strike, and all acquired rights. And they add: 'in the face of this situation, we can no longer fight divided. We need to unite and coordinate the struggles. This Saturday, December 6, from 14 to 18, at EP N°15 Maestra Celina (Voena 1750) in the Tigre locality of El Talar, various worker and popular organizations will hold a meeting with the objective of 'setting up a Workers' Coordination Table of the Northern Zone' to 'organize the forces in a united way against the labor reform and the ongoing attacks.' Meanwhile, our wages have been practically frozen for months, losing to inflation and with thousands of layoffs. Not to mention those who do not even have the right to have a collective agreement or a union.
Northern Argentine Unions Unite Against Milei's Labor Reform
Workers' and popular organizations in Argentina's Northern Zone are meeting to form a united coordination body to fight against President Milei's new labor reform, which they claim will destroy hard-won rights. They call for unity and joint actions, citing successful strikes in healthcare and other sectors.