Public and retired officials on Wednesday, universities Thursday: a sector social mobilization but Tenaz continues in Argentina against the austerity of the Milei Government, which will eliminate a holiday for public officials, in the name of the fight against “statism.”
A few thousand protesters, especially from the public service, paraded at noon in the heart of Buenos Aires, in the call of unions and social movements near the Peronist opposition (center to the left), under the slogans “sovereignty, work and fair salary”.
The protesters gathered before the deregulation of the Ministry of State, before joining the weekly demonstration of retirees, which every Wednesday protests before Parliament against the reduction of their purchasing power.
Violence
“It has been a year since I was retired, and I played exactly like the first day” despite an inflation of 43% for a year, Alicia Torroija, 78, who receives the equivalent of 270 dollars per month, just more than the retirement minium, and remains thanks to the help of her children.
The weekly demonstration of retirees has become a convergence point of several protests against the deregulation and austerity of the ultra liberal government of Javier Milei.
Some of these demonstrations, sometimes accompanied by radical elements, degenerated in clashes between the police and the protesters, as in mid -March, during the worst scenes of violence in 18 months of presidency of Milei.
In addition to retirees and public officials, the staff of an emblematic public hospital for children, the Garrahan (around 4,000 employees) was on Wednesday for salary claims.
Crusade against a “cult of the State”
On Thursday, it is the public universities that are mobilized against the definition of the definition of wages, research, scholarships or maintenance of universities. A group of sixty universities, and unions, asked for a 48 -hour strike of teachers and demonstrations on Thursday in several cities.
The Government has announced its crusade against a “cult of the cult” that “belongs to the past”, eliminating the June 27 license, the “State Workers’ Day”, which since 2013 was unemployed in the public service.
“The State is not a place where one must be able to enjoy a sabbatical day or any other privilege that the private worker does not have,” said presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni on Wednesday, announcing an imminent decree that eliminates this vacation.
Source: BFM TV
