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Argentine Telam News Agency Workers Are in Struggle

In a conflict that has been going on for more than one month and a half, Telam workers are still fighting for the 357 dismissed colleagues while the service of that Argentine state agency continues interrupted.

Following a new court ruling that ordered the reinstatement of 12 members of the Press Workers Union, today the head of the Federal System of Media and Public Content, Hernán Lombardi, is expected to appear again at the Congress.

Two months after attending the Chamber of Deputies, he will speak at the Senate about the decision that led to the dismissal of a significant percentage of the staff of that press, including the closing of several correspondents, as reported by several of the employees.

According to the El Parlamentario portal, Lombardi will have to present himself today at 16:00, local time, in the upper chamber of the Commission on Systems, Media and Freedom of Expression, chaired by Alfredo Luenzo.

In the public hearing, the holder of the System of Public Media defended the dismissals after emphasizing that there was an oversized growth of the staff that went from 479 employees in 2003 to 926 in January of 2016.

Yesterday Labor Judge Silvia Garzini admitted an injunction and ordered the reinstatement of 12 of those dismissed, adding up to 15 cases in a measure that provides for the return of their jobs ‘in the same conditions of performance of tasks.’

The fight for the reinstatement of the dismissed workers continues and several of the parliamentarians have demonstrated their solidarity as happened on August 8 in the debate on abortion where the cameras captured several posters reading ‘Telam is missing here.’

For more than a month, the headquarters of Belgrano Avenue has become a headquarters for the press, where human rights defenders, artists, among others, are going to express their solidarity to the employees of the agency.

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