the current millionaire of NewSan and Rubén Cherñajovsky

The dismissed workers of Siam do not tire of saying it: "It is not an SME in crisis, Siam is part of one of the most important economic groups of the country, Newsan Rubén Cherñajovsky is the only one in the world. One of the richest people in the country, meanwhile, our wages of 16,000 pesos do not reach us before the end of the month: we pay rent, services, we have children. let us go on the street, these millionaire entrepreneurs can not play with our hunger and that of our families. "

The words move. The men and women who have left years of their lives in these sectors and a good deal of their health, say who are the powerful who are behind their layoffs. And they know that they do not have a "crisis". But who are the entrepreneurs who want to leave dozens of families on the street?

The NewSan Group: the field of electronics

Rubén Cherñajovsky is the majority shareholder of the NewSan Group, established in 1991. He owns 64% of the shares of Uruguayan businessman Gabriel Fridman. The rest belongs to Japanese Sanyo.

The group has an infinite number of companies across the country, badociated with large multinationals. NewSan is at the origin of the products that millions of people buy: Pioneer, Microlab, Nintendo, Braun, Noblex, Sanyo, Noblex, Philco, Sony, Kodak, Alcatel or Atma, to name a few. -uns. Many of the products that flood our homes come from their factories: refrigerators, air conditioning, mobile phones, laptops, cameras, cameras, microwaves or refrigerators.

Refrigerators such as those made by workers who claim their jobs until 9 November. Through Siam (Pilisar SA), he has become the country's largest refrigerator producer, thanks to the workers he wants to leave on the street today. 600 refrigerators arrived to leave the factory Avellaneda daily.

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Millionaire growth and the "reconversion" of NewSan

NewSan's sales evolution has been explosive during dollar-long stocks and the "closing of imports". Between 2008 and 2010, the group's sales increased by 53%. In 2012, it reached 4 billion dollars.

But the company, through its relations with all governments, has seized the opportunity to adapt to "new business opportunities". As says the right arm of Cherñajovsky, Luis Galli, "in 2011, the Group has diversified its activities by encouraging the export of fishery products, as well as other products such as honey, wine, musts, prunes and raisins. "The profits were such that in 2013 it reached a net profit of 586 million pesos and increased it in 2014 to 814 million pesos.

Thus, he became not only a giant of home appliances, but also an opportunity to develop primary commodity exports. That's why Galli himself acknowledged in 2015 having completed "this year with a turnover of nearly $ 2,800 million, including exports, and an investment of $ 42 million" . 2,800 million turnover, with only 42 million investments.

What crisis are they talking about?

This gigantic company has never stopped growing. As the dismissed workers say: NewSan is in crisis, it's a lie. Its sales in 2018 increased by 56% and more than 60% of its turnover corresponds to the sales of its own production products ($ 8.3 billion), that is to say, electrical appliances of all types. The exchange rate did not allow its profits to grow at the same time, but favored its export activities (food and fishing). Preliminary balances in 2018 already have a net profit of $ 260 million. A profit of only $ 260 million for part of the year!

What crisis are they talking about?

That's why Rubén Cherñajovsky told Forbes magazine in June of this year: "I have to compete in a less protected way, but we are still competitive." There we knew that his personal fortune is $ 780 million. 28.8 billion pesos, read well. That is 5 times the budget of the Avellaneda party for the whole year 2018, 5 800 million pesos! The money intended each year to the direction of a municipality of 400 000 inhabitants represents 20% of the personal fortune of Rubén Cherñajovsky.

What crisis are they talking about?

The profits of the NewSan group and this fortune made at the expense of thousands of workers show that the company does not have a crisis. That the dismissals constitute a deliberate and discriminatory attack against a group of workers.

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Menem, Scioli, Kirchner, Macri: a history of trading with the state's money

This model character of a "successful business man" has managed to get a strong connection with Argentine political power. Rubén Cherñajovsky learned to manage the links with the governors and presidents of the country. With Carlos Menem, he managed to settle in Tierra del Fuego and create his giant appliances, mobile phones, and added to his portfolio of fishing companies and automotive. At that time, he bought bankruptcy titles from Continental Fueguina SA.

Later she acquired the former Aurora-Grundig factory (closed in 1997) by means of expropriation in express procedure. At the reopening ceremony, in November 2011, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Carlos Tomada, Daniel Scioli and Antonio Calo of the UOM were present.

This new acquisition, as well as the "Connect Equality" call for tenders to provide netbooks, allowed it to expand its activities in the sector, thus fueling tax exemptions and subsidies for years. Despite this, he never filled his share of the market: the creation of 1,000 jobs.

In the world of politics, everyone knows that Rubén is a personal friend of Scioli and, in fact, he lent him the plane so that the president can perform personal and political flights.

More business with the state and the consequences of its "serial escape"

But man has always been able to adapt to "new times". According to journalist Alejandro Bercovich, Newsan Group won a call for tenders for public lighting. It is not a coincidence that imports of LED lamps from Pilisar S.A. (Siam), in dollars, reach the 3,411,071. It is part of the group also has a significant import of other products such as refrigerators with 4700 BTU; machinery and electrical equipment.

In recent years, Cherñajovsky has been dedicated to diversifying its activities. In addition to continuing to earn millions with home appliances, he ventured into the fishing industry. Benefiting from a law of the Santa Cruz legislature, he was able to advance an exploitation agreement with the Veira Argentina fishery through its Newsan Food business unit.

Thanks to the export of shrimp, new "red gold" sacked, the group retains 30% of total exports of this sector, all billed in dollars or euros. In 2016, Newsan's fishing business exported 220 million US dollars, and this number is increasing every year.

Also during these years, one of his financial maneuvers was known: how many others would be neglected. It was at this point that he tried to launder money after the measure promoted by Mauricio Macri. But his attempt was truncated because in November 2017 a sentence of the National Chamber of Criminal Cbadation rejected the petition for the prescription of the criminal case that invests for tax evasion, the tax on earnings and the personal property between 21 and 2006.

This is a serial escapee.

The only illegal ones are businessmen

The "confusion" around the "NewSan crisis" seems to have touched sectors very close to the group of companies. This Monday, on the account of Unidad Ciudadana, was tweeted: "The company SIAM is a symbol of the national industry.At today it is broken.With the Macri model, they lose what they produce and work. "

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The truth shows that there is no crisis and that it is absolutely anti-union dismissals. As dismissed workers say that they refuse to play with the hunger of their families, the NewSan group has no crisis. Their layoffs are an attack against those who resist the adjustment.

In order to proceed with this dispossession, the company's leaders refused to comply with the compulsory conciliation dictated by the Ministry of Labor and did not allow the 20 metallurgists dismissed in a persecutory manner, among which was the commission of delegates democratically elected. workers.

But it is not new. In recent months, more than 165 workers have been fired. All of this has been done not only in a discriminatory manner, but without any "crisis prevention" procedure, as stipulated by law, to lay off almost half of its staff. As the workers say and show the numbers, is there any possibility of demonstrating a crisis? Because there is not any.

Faced with these illegalities, criminal "work" and "justice" have done nothing. On the contrary, they guarantee the militarization of the factory since November 9, the arrest of a solidarity worker (Gustavo Michel, employee of Shell) and a fierce repression of workers and neighbors on November 23 .

Therefore, we must end the verse of the "crisis of Siam" and the illegalities of society. We must support the struggle of the Siam workers against adjustment.