The workers of INTA rejected the new downsizing plan and denounced a process of dismantling of the 100-year-old institution.

Workers from INTA, grouped in APINTA, held their Ordinary Congress this past Tuesday, December 16, and approved a document in which they express an explicit and detailed rejection of the downsizing process that the government of Javier Milei is pushing for the world-renowned science and technical organization. The text establishes an institutional position of the union and, at the same time, orders and systematizes the main official measures that, according to them, configure a plan to dismantle the INTA. The document approved by the congress enumerates and puts in context a series of decisions that have been outlined since the beginning of the current Milei administration. In this journey, the workers describe a process that combines staff reduction, closure of territorial structures, cutting back on lines of work, and selling strategic assets, with direct impact on the operational and scientific capacity of the institute. APINTA maintains that these measures are part of the same ...