Working conditions have been a point of contingency for many people in recent years. The restaurant sector, the main target in this regard, has seen a rise in reports of mistreatment by superiors, poor salaries, questionable incentives and a practically toxic environment. That is why complaints, through social media profiles such as Soy Camarero, are the order of the day.
However, these situations are repeated in more than one industry, and in one very specific case it has ended with a controversial dismissal. This is Tomi Munaretto, a former employee of the Argentine television channel Crónica TV, who has been stripped of his contract after a live connection that went around the world. In it, the reporter denounced the irregular conditions under which he was carrying out his duties.
“What everyone thought was going to happen to me happened. “They just kicked me out of the channel,” said Munaretto, who later even confirmed that Crónica TV’s lawyer “is going to personally ensure that I am not hired in any other media outlet.” Some images that she recorded live at the doors of the channel’s headquarters, denouncing in public the number of workers who were in the same conditions.
“Life goes on, I don’t know what I’m going to do. One way or another I’m going to manage. But inside this place there are 50 or 60 people who are in the same irregular situation that I was in,” she explained, for the second time in the last 24 hours. “There are many people on the channel who are in this precarious situation, and I know that many are also even worse. I hope this helps to change the situation, which is unsustainable.”
It all happened during a section in which Crónica TV talked about the situation in Argentina in the hands of Javier Milei, mired in a serious inflation situation. Munaretto was acting as a street reporter near the Constitución train station, consulting citizens about it. It was at that moment, after coming across a woman who was begging for alms, that the former collaborator exploded at a joke from the presenter.
“Earn 6 lucas a day doing this. He also contributes, because he sang. Contribute something,” Carlos Stroker told him. “Who tells you what to contribute, production? Send me the money, because with 1,715 pesos an extra hour (1.87 euros at the exchange rate), Carlos, I can’t contribute. It’s not enough for me. The girl who works at home charges me three lucas. How do I pay it? Explain to me Besides, I’m in black. I don’t have vacations, I don’t have a bonus, I pay 117,000 pesos to Social Security…”, Munaretto replied.
