Argentina´s Government will lay off more than 1,000 cultural workers

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In Argentina, workers of the secretariat of culture denounced actions by the government of Javier Milei to lay off 1,200 employees in the sector. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 In Argentina, workers of the Secretariat of Culture denounce actions by the government

00:05 of Javier Milley to lay off 1,200 employees in the sector.

00:09 The State Workers' Association warned that Milley's government will perpetuate a new

00:13 wave of layoffs when it lays off more than 1,200 employees from the Secretariat of Culture.

00:20 The union assured that two high-level government executives have told them about the measure

00:25 and that it will be made official in the next few days.

00:29 Workers of the Secretariat of Culture also accepted that in many areas there have not

00:34 yet been any submissions and the work of the employees is unknown.

00:44 The truth is very distressing.

00:45 We belong to a former ministry that has become a secretariat and it has 4,000 workers.

00:50 They propose 30% cuts without any problem, as if people were numbers, as if behind each

00:54 person there was not a family, when in reality what we have here are workers who guarantee

00:59 rights, who guarantee access to culture and without any reason or anything they gave us

01:03 a contract for three months to evaluate us.

01:06 They didn't appoint directors.

01:08 They said that the evaluations are sort of done.

01:10 They know who they have to fire.

01:11 Who do they have to fire?

01:13 Everybody is needed here.

01:16 Argentina's Integral Medical Assistance Program is the one that suffers the most damage from

01:20 the measures imposed by the government of Javier Milley.

01:24 Pensions and PAMI benefits are the two items with the largest drop in public spending by

01:29 the government so far this year.

01:31 The total amount of the cuts made by the government of Javier Milley in both items amounts to

01:36 1,682 million Argentine pesos.

01:40 The Argentinian Institute of Fiscal Analysis stated that the collapse of real spending

01:45 on pensions could be halted with exceptions, tax benefits and sources of financing that

01:50 guarantee fiscal balance.

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