Workers' Union protest as Milei administration deepens layoffs

(1 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1 July 2024
1. Various of clashes between protesting workers and police in riot gear
2. Police using pepper spray on protesters
3. Protesters retreating and covering their faces due to pepper spray
4. Rodolfo Aguiar shouts at the police UPSOUND (Spanish): “Calm down, stop acting tough.”
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodolfo Aguiar, 53, Secretary General of the Association of State Workers (ATE):
“The government said this second round of layoffs was to clean up the state. If they want to clean the state, they should start at Quinta de Olivos and Casa Rosada (presidential residences) because they are full of trash, not against the workers.”
6. Workers singing around a bonfire UPSOUND (Spanish): “I am a state worker, building unity.”
7. A worker hangs banners in front of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI).
8. Banners written by workers
9. Workers singing
10. Police in line holding shields
11. Close-up of a police officer
12. Angela Perez shouting at the police UPSOUND (Spanish): “Science and technology workers want to enter their jobs, and you are not letting them. You are a disgrace.”
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angela Perez, 41, IT worker at the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI):
“They think we workers are slackers. No, we make this science and technology institution great. We certify, offer courses, and help SMEs grow. We train their staff and make all our labs available for various tests.”
14. Protesters chanting at the police UPSOUND (Spanish): “We are workers, out with the cops and looters.”
15. Wide shot of strike in front of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI).
16. Argentine flag, protesters
STORYLINE:
Protesting workers, who are apart of a union of state employees that had been recently laid off, held a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Monday.
The demonstrators gathered at several facilities including the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), the Gender Secretariat and the Human Rights Secretariat for the strike which was organised by the Association of State Workers (ATE).
Police officers with riot shields were on hand to monitor the protest.
The workers' union claims that more than 15,000 layoffs were ordered by the President Javier Milei to cut public spending.
Nearly 300 of such layoffs were made on Monday at the INTI.
Milei maintains that the Argentine state is oversized and that it is necessary to cut personnel.
The unions maintains that the cuts mostly end the jobs of people who carry out their tasks adequately.
AP Video shot by Pablo Barrera
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