The Darío Santillán Popular Front (FPDS) and the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) will gather this Thursday at 10:00 a.m. on Paseo Colón and Brasil, in the city of Buenos Airesto denounce that the Buenos Aires government “wants to put 35 cooperative women out of work” in charge of waste collection in the villa 21-24 Zavaleta.
In a statement released by these organizations, they stated that the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta; the city’s Minister of Public Spaces, Clara Muzzio, and her Human Development partner, María Migliore, “want to fire 35 workers who collected garbage in Villa 21 8 years ago.”
“The decision is to leave 35 women on the street who have been doing this task for 39,280 pesos for eight years and fire them without explanation, without compensation and without any recognition”
“The decision is to leave 35 women on the street who have been doing this task for 39,280 pesos for eight years and fire them without explanation, without compensation and without any recognition,” they said.
They also noted that Rodríguez Larreta’s administration “lays off workers from the popular economy” while “increasing advertising spending.”
At the same time, they explained that social organizations “fought eight years ago for waste collection to be carried out in popular neighborhoods” and highlighted that “collection companies only collected garbage outside the villas and there were more and more garbage dumps large within the neighborhoods”.
In this sense, they highlighted that “It was achieved that workers of the popular economy and residents of the neighborhoods were the ones who carried out the tasks of garbage collection, scrapping, weeding, sanitation, container cleaning” and pointed against “the companies” that “did not want to do (that work) in the villas.”
Meanwhile, they assured that the decision of the City Government “has nothing to do with a labor conflict, but a political one.”
The reference of the FPDS and part of the leadership of the neighborhood council of villa 21, Flavia Romero, assured: “We are the only organization of villa 21 Zavaleta that has this conflict with the City.”
He also denounced that “Several months ago” they have been victims of “a serious systematic persecution of canteens, textile workshops and now the compañeras and compañeros who do sweeping and cleaning.”
Romero expressed that they demand “something as basic as not leaving 15 families on the street” and completed: “They want to put us out of work, to discipline us politically.”
