(5 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina – 4 July 2024
1. Woman waiting to receive food from "community pot"
2. People collecting food
3. Woman holding a flare while chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) “State worker, I remain faithful to that legacy.”
4. Argentine state workers protesting in front of the Government House
5. Group of workers, along with Rodolfo Aguiar, Secretary General of the Association of State Workers, protesting at Government House entrance
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodolfo Aguiar, 53, Secretary General of the Association of State Workers (ATE):
“The community pot symbolizes a country where hunger has drastically increased, and poverty has doubled. This shows a new phenomenon in Argentina that we didn’t know, which is the impoverishment of the poor. The poor are getting poorer, and it won’t be solved by these haters inside the Casa Rosada (office of the president). We will solve it together with our people, and we have no other path but to fight.”
7. Female state workers from the Gender and Diversity Committee protesting
8. Close of the "community pot"
9. Laid-off workers lining up to collect food from the ‘community pot’
10. Close of a tray of food being handed out
11. Aerial of Plaza de Mayo ++MUTE++
12. Pull-focus of sticker on pole reading (Spanish) "25,000 state workers without jobs" to protesters
13. Protesters holding sign reading (Spanish) "No to the dismantling of the Memory Sites"
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Octavio Rampoldi, ATE delegate from the National Secretariat of Human Rights:
"This is affecting the National Commission for the Right to Identity, where they are dismantling the research unit, which means they don’t want to search for the grandchildren, the living "disappeared" we have today in society, who are all those grandchildren stolen by the genocides, and whose identities have not yet been restored."
15. Human Rights organizations display a banner reading (Spanish) "Hunger is a crime," UPSOUND (Spanish) “Milei, trash, you are the dictatorship.”
16. Close of signs with drawings of handkerchiefs reading (Spanish) “Message to grandmothers and mothers.”
STORYLINE:
Argentina’s Association of State Workers (ATE) organised a mass protest in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires on Friday, to oppose recent layoffs.
The union reports 3,000 more workers have been dismissed, adding to the 20,000 workers laid off since December.
As part of the protest, organizers set up a "community pot", which they said symbolized the hunger and unemployment affecting state workers.
The protest included a nationwide general strike of all ATE members.
The union emphasized the need for continued street protests to halt the government’s actions.
The government headed by firebrand Javier Milei aims to dismiss a total of 70,000 public employees as part of a fiscal adjustment plan. The government has justified these dismissals saying they are part of economic restructuring.
Part of the layoffs affects those tasked with investigating and charging crimes committed during Argentina’s dictatorship, including government workers who review archive material from the dictatorship when no witnesses remain alive to testify.
The victims of the dictatorship, known as the "disappeared", are still front and centre of many Argentine minds.
Until democracy was restored in 1983, at least 30,000 people had disappeared.
The union criticised the government’s quarterly renewal of contracts, which has led to increased job insecurity and more frequent lay-offs.
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