Summary Of "Employer-Military Complicity During Last Military Dictatorship In Argentina" By Victoria Basualdo

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EMPLOYER-MILITARY COMPLICITY DURING LAST MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN ARGENTINA: THE CASES OF ACINDAR, ASTARSA, DÁLMINE SIDERCA, FORD, LEDESMA & MERCEDES BENZ

1. The evidence available on these cases of employer-military complicity

a) Astarsa

Shipyard founded in Tigre in the 1920s by the Braun Menéndez family.
In the 70s it brought together 800 metallurgical workers and 700 naval workers, who received good salaries but in appalling health conditions: loud noises and toxic fumes that caused lung diseases, sterility and work accidents.
The death by accidents of several workers led to the seizure of the factory in 1973 by a militant workers leadership, which achieved with their protests the creation of a Workers' Hygiene and Safety Commission.
In 1975 several of these militants, members of the JTP, Peronist Workers' Youth, were kidnapped and tortured by paramilitary groups, being freed by the intense mobilization of factories and residents of Tigre.
On the same day of the coup d'état, tanks, assault cars and helicopters, with the collaboration of the company, cordoned off the factory and took 60 workers, members of the body of delegates and the internal commission.

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