Social organizations joined the national protest day this Tuesday. They reported that they demonstrated against the Argentine president, Javier Milei, for the “adjustment to the dining rooms.” There was an outage at the intersection roundabout from Route 22 and Route 151, prior to Cipolletti-Neuquén bridge. In addition, there were protests in the center of Neuquén and in Viedma. A total blockade was carried out until noon on Route 22 and Heredia (Canale) in Roca. In addition, ATE Salud de Neuquén is on strike and he claimed at Government House.
On Sunday, social organizations announced a new day of national struggle for this Tuesday. The call is to continue making visible their claim regarding the situation of the soup kitchens and make clear their rejection of the Argentine president Javier Milei.
“Milei-Pettovello’s adjustment policy hits all the people and is harsh on the most vulnerable sectors,” They pointed out from the Classist and Combative Current (CCC).
They indicated that their mobilization is because “they suspended all assistance to community kitchens, productive projects and works in popular neighborhoods and froze the salary of the “Potenciar Trabajo” from November 2023″, and they added to their claims: “Now they have cut the salaries of 200,000 workers in half and have decided to liquidate the social monotax.”
They decided to carry out another national day of struggle with mobilization in different parts of the country.
Cut in the Cipolletti-Neuquén bridges
In Cipolletti, he started a concentration at 9 in Mengelle and Pacheco, and from there they moved to the Fortín on Route 22 and 151, just before the entrance to the highway bridges. They started a interruption to traffic minutes after 10, on the line that goes from Cipolletti to Neuquén. Around noon, The blockade also extended in the Neuquén-Cipolletti direction. At 2 p.m., both protests were lifted.
There was presence of Gendarmerie, Federal Police and Prefecture on the toll plaza.
From the UTEP front, in Cipolletti, they indicated that they asked for: food emergency; against unfair dismissals and the freezing of the former Potenciar Trabajo; and the continuity of all works in popular neighborhoods.
March in the center of Neuquén capital
In Neuquen capital the concentration was on the monument to Saint Martin. Members of social organizations mobilized on Avenida Argentina and then They went to the Governor’s Office, where there was a stay. The representative of the Polo Obrero in Neuquén, César Parra, indicated that at noon they had a meeting with authorities of the Executive.
The measure in place coincided with a protest action that ATE also carried out at Government House.
In addition to national claims, There is an order at the provincial level that brings them together. The claim targeted the governor of Neuquén, Rolando Figueroa, to demand the start of work on public works.
«It happens that the government delays the times, it does not establish the budgets for the works and the specifications. When work should have started in mid-April, we are still waiting and every week there is a new delay,” they stated in the statement. “We urgently need to start working,” they highlighted.
They added that they demanded that the government urgently increase the “Employability Incentive” program that is in the paltry sum of $32,000, an amount that does not even cover the electricity bill or the bus fare.
Additionally, UTEP cIt was centered at the ANSES headquarters, at 68 Córdoba Street at 10, under the slogan “enough of the chainsaw to the humble sectors, let the caste of Milei, Menem and Caputo pay for the adjustment.”
They asked for “the update of the Return to Work Plan with the vital and mobile minimum wage, payment for the program social support and the return of food assistance to the hundreds of dining rooms abandoned by the National Government.
Cut of Route 22 in Roca
In Roca, UTEP joined the national day with cuts throughout the country. It is “against the adjustment, the elimination of social programs and the closures of dining rooms.” They also targeted Governor Alberto Weretilneck.
From 9 o’clock they began to gather and around 10 A total cut began on Route 22, at the level of Félix Heredia. Andrea López, representative of the Darío Santillán Popular Front, pointed out that The measure was extended until minutes before 1:00 p.m.
López indicated that only Emergency vehicles and people with medical appointments are allowed to pass.
Protest in Viedma
The Union of Workers of the Popular Economy in Río Negro carried out a claim asking that declare the food emergency and increase funds that the municipality sends for dining rooms and picnic areas “because they are not enough.”
The protest was outside Social Development.
ATE strike in Neuquén hospitals and concentration in the center
The Association of State Workers (ATE) of Neuquén called for a 24-hour strike this Tuesday in Health. The force measure contemplates a concentration and affects the health service of several public establishments in the province.
The rally started at 9 at the ATE headquarters located in Irigoyen at 554. It was decided to mobilization towards Government House, where there was a stay.
ANDIn the interior of the province, the activities will be carried out in health centers.
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