Carolina Yutrovic: "It Seems Like the Government Doesn't Care that There Are 6,000 More or Less Workers"

The representative of Union for the Homeland referred to a wave of protests in Tierra del Fuego after the lowering of tariffs and considered that the government seeks to “depopulate the island.” Read more

The rejection of Javier Milei’s government decree reducing tariffs on the import of cell phones and other electronic products put Tierra del Fuego in a climate of war. The measure puts at risk about 8,000 jobs in the province in the face of the fall from 16% to 8% of the import duties for smartphones, with a total elimination planned for January 2026. Romina, a fifteen-year-old plant worker at BGH, went out to face the argument that only the dev…

In the midst of the conflict over the lowering of tariffs that is happening between the national government and both the authorities and workers of the province of Tierra del Fuego, the governor, Gustavo Melella, confirmed that all the parties involved will meet to sign an agreement aimed at the preservation of the jobs."The companies declared that they will keep the jobs and that they will commit themselves to reordering the production. We quot…

This is a tripartite understanding between the provincial government, companies and guilds. "When you open import indiscriminately, you end up crushing an entire productive and economic system in a region," Melella warned.

The governor of Tierra del Fuego, in Tomorrow Sylvestre by Radio 10, spoke about the general stoppage carried out this Wednesday and that completely paralysed the southernmost province of the country. The measure of force was a strong expression of rejection of the presidential decree that eliminated the tax benefits on electronic products manufactured on the island. “Yesterday the province was paralyzed because we understand very well what empl…

Following the rejection by workers in the metallurgical sector of the removal of tariffs imposed by the national government on electronic products, the Governor of Tierra del Fuego announced that he had negotiated with employers to preserve jobs in the sector.