The city of Río Tercero mobilized through the streets in support of the workers and against the company. When the installation work was being carried out, the notification of layoffs arrived. "In the end, the beneficiaries turn out to be the businessmen," he said. This Monday afternoon, the city of Río Tercero mobilized through the streets in support of the workers and against the company. The defense of jobs, education, and health is only possible with unity in the streets because it is a government that comes against everything, and we have to respond with the same force," said Victoria Feinher, a student at the Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Córdoba.
"Therefore, they must reverse the layoffs as they are unjustified," explained Lucas Felici, General Secretary of the Personnel of Chemical and Petrochemical Industries of Río Tercero in dialogue with Mestiza Rock. "The economic model we seek is with state policies and not at the will of free trade that the president wants to impose, where the indiscriminate opening of imports generates unemployment and destruction of national industry," pointed out David Salto, General Secretary of ATE Río Tercero. Additionally, he asserted that "when the people begin to rebel and mobilizations and protests start, I believe that if they do not take action on the matter, it could end up like what happened in 2001 with a major social explosion."
From the city of Córdoba, large groups of students and leftist parties arrived to support the workers' demonstration. "We believe it is fundamental to continue building labor-student unity from the grassroots." He also denounced that the petrochemical industry used the government "asking for loans, credits to set up a new transformer."
The Ministry of Labor of the province of Córdoba ordered Petroquímica Río Tercero to reinstate the 150 workers laid off a month ago, and the company's reaction is still awaited. "The ruling clearly states that the layoffs are null and void."