It’s up to sport to cut Milei: what is the unions’ request for workers fired by CeNARD

On Wednesday, before saying goodbye to their colleagues for the XXL weekend, a group of employees at the National Center for High Performance Sport (CeNARD) began receiving notification that their contracts would not be renewed. Thus, after the strong rumors circulating since Monday, according to which members of the Federal Police were also present on Núñez’s property, of the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Sport by Daniele Scioli started the reduction plan of the staff among 400 people who work in the different locations (Núñez itself, the Tigre National Rowing and Canoe Track and the Ezeiza National Sports Center).

At first there was talk of around 130 layoffs: the brand new undersecretary Giulio Garro had warned there would be a 30 percent reduction – but the unofficial number is somewhere in between 75 and 100. Also released this Friday was a short list of those who will no longer work at the place where the vast majority of Argentina’s elite athletes train. And there appear people who have been working at CeNARD for many years. “Lifelong workers there”they defined them.

One of them wrote to a renowned high-performance coach and told him: “On Wednesday at 6pm, after the working day and 18 years of tireless work, Human Resources called me to tell me that they would not renew my contract.”.

The two most important unions that bring together CeNARD employees (Union of Civilian Personnel of the Nation -UPCN- and Association of State Workers -ATE-) have asked their members who have received notification of the end of their agreements to return to work normally on Wednesday . But many don’t want to know anything about it..

The situation falls within the framework of the vast reduction of the state proposed by Javier Milei’s government. The president himself assured that 70 thousand contracts will be terminated by the end of the month, but then the spokesperson of the Casa Rosada Manuele Adorni He clarified that it would be 15 thousand. Sport has had its turn.