From the assembly of the workers of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) issued a statement in which they assure that after the closure of the areas Directorate of Legal Metrology (DML) and the Argentine Calibration Service (SAC)they began to receive precarious job offers. Part of the scrapyard in the State that the government is executing Javier Milei.
«In recent weeks, emails began to arrive to INTI workers from the Argentine Accreditation Body (OAA) and some private calibration laboratories. They were asked to carry out – the statement denounces – audits and tests that until a few months ago were part of the Institute’s technological offer. This ‘job offer’ offered clandestinely implies individual billing for those services.
And he completes: «That is, they offer us to violate the Public Ethics Lawwhich imposes on the workers of the State exclusivity and confidentiality, taking advantage of the enormous economic need that we are going through.
«Talent hunt» at the INTI
The statement goes on to note that this “talent hunt” It demonstrates, as the workers have been saying for a long time, that “the INTI is the only organization with the technical capacity to guarantee the quality and traceability of the measurements.”
He also explains that they are going to look for them because although the private companies claim to have more modern equipment and have discretionary resources, “they do not have the fundamental thing: we, the INTI workers, our capacity and technical expertise,” he points out.
The workers’ letter emphasizes that the closure of the Legal Metrology Directorate and the Argentine Calibration Service, “It is part of the policy of dissolution of the Institute that this Government has followed since it took office.«.
In addition, it reviews how the scrapping took place. First with the Base Law in which the Government he intended to close the INTI. Then with him Decree 462/25which transformed them into a mere technical office.
However, That Decree was defeated by the workers’ struggle. Then they began to look for other alternatives to carry out the same plan and move forward with the centralization of the institute by force.
An emptying plan
“For example, the closure of strategic work lines such as DML and SAC, the lack of budget, the salary freeze, the hindrance of purchases are all measures in pursuit of this emptying plan,” the statement notes.
The workers’ claim explains that there was a long way to go until the aforementioned areas were closed. He points out that first It was with the authorization of private metrology laboratories to carry out metrological controls that the INTI had as exclusive due to its technical capacity and its impartiality.
He continues: «Then, As users continued to use our services, INTI’s marketing management decided to considerably increase service fees by 300%.«.
Furthermore, it should be noted that the Argentine Calibration System was closed and they did not allow that network to continue with its work, which is technically recognized and endorsed by public and private laboratories in the country.
He Government also dissolved the Legal Metrology Departmentwhich aimed to care for the population in activities where measurements such as commerce and health existed. And in the middle of all this operation that the workers point out: “se displaced the historical metrology manager, not as a simple personnel change, but as a ‘scrap‘complete metrological gear of the country’.
The statement assures that these measures have the sole objective of favoring a few laboratories, leaving many other laboratories that made their measurements correctly without opportunities.
Warns that it is converging to a monopolistic position in favor of one or two actors in a system of which Until recently, more than one hundred laboratories, both public and private, participated.
The writing ends. «Currently, although we continue with tasks, we do not see a clear, institutional line of work and objectives, but we maintain it by our own conviction. Because the officials pass, but at INTI we do it among the workers«.
