Argentina: Fired rubber company workers brutally assaulted by police

Published at: 05/03/2026 12:45 PM

Workers dismissed from the leading Argentinian rubber manufacturing and exporting company, FATE, were repressed by the Buenos Aires City Police, while participating in a peaceful demonstration outside the Labor Secretariat.

While union leaders in the sector were holding a meeting with national officials to address the conflict over the 920 dismissed employees, whose meeting ended without reaching any kind of agreement, on the outskirts of the place the police were attacking the working class.

The police officers, without a prior mediation dialogue, advanced against the workers with blows, rubber bullets and tear gas. Led by the head of government Jorge Macri, they persecuted workers and their families who were trying to protect themselves from the water trucks and police motorcycles that were advancing on them.

The Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers (SUTNA), called for a mobilization to denounce that the company, headed by Javier Madanes Quintanilla, is committing a “scam” by breaching an agreement approved in 2025.

The Confederation of Workers of Autonomous Argentina (CTA), unions of the General Confederation of Labor of the Argentine Republic (CGT) and different social groups mobilized with the objective of supporting the legitimate demands of the employees and demanding the reopening of the industry.

Mazo News Team