On the 15th of January, 1925, at the Teatro Verdi’s auditorium in La Boca district, whithin the City of Buenos Aires, the workers of the National Department of Navigation and Docks which belongs to the Ministry of Public Works created the Government Workers Association. Blacksmiths, carpenters, mechanics, lathe operators, laborers, electritians, builders, painters, sailors, boiler operators among other crafts -all of them working on the docks- were part of te meeting through which our union was created.
After almost a centruty our union still struggles with the workers and the argentine people for social justice and sovereignity of our Homeland.
ATE has 200 thousand members. They work for the Argentine National Government, the Provinces Governments, and the Local Governments, as well as autarchic bodies, public, independant bodies, State Public companies, mixes economy companies, corporations, Public corporations and State-owned equities corporations, centralized and decentralized bodies at the national, provincial or local level, or at all of them. It alos includes the workers with a retirement pension who had employee status in any of the aforementioned bodies.
Our Union groups workers of all arts and crafts, as well as all the professional disciplines of the various sectors of the State. They render service in more than one thousand hospitals all over the country. The Educational Assistans do the same in more than three thousand shcools. The workers of more than five hundred municipalities are also represented by ATE.
Workers, technicians and professionals of the food control and quality bodies of the country, together with Science and Technology workers are members of ATE. We can alos find miners who work for government bodies, nuclear workers and dock workers.
Those related to culture as well as the workers of the most important shipyards in Argentina are members of our association. Those working in the productive areas for the national defense are represented by ATE. The people who work on the enery, water supply and sanitation departments as well as people working in public services rendered by the municipalities all over the national territory.
ATE has more than 15 thousand base delegates organized in 126 districts and 24 Provincial Advisory Boards, and 150 union offices all olver the country, creating our members communication and organization network.
Recreational centers, hotels and training schools are the main duties carried out by our association in order to consolidate the fighting power of the state workers.
The first step in ATE’s organizarion is the group of delegates of each working section. These representatives are, in turn organized in internal commissions of each working sector, The members of one or more towns are organized in districts with basis in the major cities. The Provincial Advisory Boards work in each argentine province and the City of Buenos Aires. The union is governed by the National Advisory Board and its headquarters are in the City of Buenos Aires. The members of the districts, Provincial Advisory Boards and the National Advisory Board are chosen by direct and secret ballot of the union members. The deliberative bodies of ATE are the meetings of the Disctricts. The Provincial Congress and the (regular and extraordinary) National Congress are carried out once a year. With respect to the Collective Labor Agreements, ATE has state workers representatives for the negotiations of each sector in which these agreements are implemented.
You’re in the web of ATE Rosario city.