30 de enero de 2016, 09:41Por By Martin Hacthoun
Buenos Aires, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) Several artists in the capital encouraged a cultural festival against layoffs being done today by the Argentine government in the public sector, which amounted to 25 thousand according to the counter created in social networks, The Despidómetro.
Artistic activity of protest coincided with the launch, also in Buenos Aires, of the campaign "Macri para la mano" (Macri stop your hand), organized through Twitter and Facebook, and whose promoters announced that will hold activities the 29th of each month.
On a makeshift stage on the Buenos Aires Alem avenue facing the majestic Kirchner Cultural Centre (CCK) were interpreters and union leaders, and between songs and speeches repudiated the labor policy applied by the administration of Mauricio Macri.
Those who answered the call of the campaign Macri para la mano met on two central points, the intersection of Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio, and across from the Obelisk.
From there chanting slogans marched together Corrientes Avenue to join in Alem the artistic festival against dismissal.
Political and social groups, including antagonistic during the previous government, now manifest themselves together under the common denominator that 'an injury to one is an injury to all, "according to banners and placards reflecting the unity that begins to take shape in the desintegrated Argentine masses.
The mobilization was organized primarily through social networks from the Despidómetro account, which has a daily record of the cast. It is estimated that in December and January were already laid off about 25,000 workers in national, provincial and municipal offices.
The latest layoffs were on Thursday, 140 on Military Industries, and 130 of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Commerce, and Friday was 100 at the Casa Rosada and nearly 500 at the Ministry of Culture, in addition to 600 in the CCK.
The Association of State Workers requested a meeting with Minister Paul Avellutto, and waits for your response.
In statements to Prensa Latina, the national deputy Juan Cabandié said that what is happening today is part of a policy of downsizing the State not only strikes thousands of families, but also affect the, he considered.
'When these families are forgoing revenue, they are forced to stop consuming, argued Cabandié.
Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires lawmaker Gabriela Alegre said that "the worst thing that has this labor policy is that it is supported by the ideological persecution; They are not mere throwing militants who are now opposing organizations, but those who have and express own opinions' , she said.
So between layoffs and rate hikes in the collection of the electricity it reaches 500 percent, Argentines end January, the first month of the austral summer vacation.
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