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
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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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