Job creation, social mobility and the role of public banks in financing small and medium-sized companies were topics addressed on the third day of the Third Industrial Congress, organized by Industriales Pymes Argentinos (IPA).
“The growth and development of Argentina are directly related to the distribution of income; the construction of jobs with rights are a necessary condition for there to be a society with upward social mobility and inclusive industrial development,” he said. the Minister of Labor, Raquel Olmos.
By participating in the congress, he promised to work together on “training, training and job creation, mainly in SME entities, that we all know are central”.
“Argentina’s development requires a central backbone that is industrial activity”he added.
The minister said that “there are those who insist on proposing, based on a concept of greed, that the well-being of employers resides in impoverishment and the elimination of rights around work.”
“The only thing that these systems generate is poverty and speculation, which leads the industry to suffer with these systems, it shrinks, it weakens,” he remarked.
To its turn, the director of Banco de la Nación Argentina, Martín Pollerastressed that “nine out of ten loans granted from Banco Nación are to SMEs”, and that “from January 2020 to date, 131 thousand SMEs have accessed loans from our bank.”
“In difficult situations, the effort has to be double,” said Pollera, who recalled that “20 days ago we added 15 billion new pesos to provide SMEs.”
The official stressed that the role of the public banking is “to preserve, conserve and defend the spirit of SMEs, accompanying them to grow”.
Pollera contrasted with the policy of Banco Nación during the macrismo that “was in function of financing layoffs. At that time, for the first time the bank had a deficit for three years.”
For his part, hethe president of Banco Nación, Silvina Batakis, He pointed out that “we want to strengthen the entire productive SME network in Argentina, for which IPA is a good vehicle to channel the tools we have.”
The president of the Metropolitan Economic General Confederation, Pablo Bressanosaid that “we have an obligation, which we cannot avoid, to link the notion of the future to a collective construction, because otherwise we will continue condemning an important part of the population to poverty; without a State that marks a common vector towards which Come on, it will be impossible.”
“There is no destination without social mobility, without education and without work”he asserted.
remembered that Mauricio Macri’s government left a “record of closed SMEs” and that, currently, “by doing things very well, we have a very complex panorama ahead of us: we still have a couple of years left to reach the GDP per capita that we had in 2011”.
For his part, the general secretary of the Association of State Workers (ATE), Hugo Godoy, He maintained that “building a new trade union model that gives projection to the potential of the working class is essential.”
He called for “generating structures that allow the group of workers who are discarded by this capitalist model, to be able to promote spaces for participation and development of the economy that allow them to be protagonists.”
