Buenos Aires - The 400 Argentinian workers that were fired from the printing plant of River Plate Graphic Arts (AGR), of Grupo Clarín company, still stand fighting today after the severe repression they suffered this Tuesday.

The company issued a statement justifying the layoffs in the printing plant on the argument of 'the strong reconfiguration that the commercial printing sector is facing' as protesters submit that the closing is false and the company is engaging in blackmail to impose the conditions of labor flexibilization.

The workers, stationed in the plant located in Pompeya neighborhood, are still on strike and they will hold today a press conference to give details of the severe repression they suffered yesterday. An important statement is expected.

Images spread by social networks showed several workers that were hurt by the impact of rubber bullets, and they complained the police also used tear gas.

'They have thrown rubber bullets at us, hot water, some of our coworkers were shot, and they even aim for our heads. In addition, all that is for defending our position. Layoff is illegal, we said that in the Ministry of Work and so far there is not even a binding arbitration to order the employer's federation to reopen the doors,' a fired member of the plant was complaining.

'There is not bankruptcy, the layoffs are illegal, what they want is to take down our organization, to break the collective agreement and hire outsourced workers. That is the way this government defends labor,' he added in a video spread in El Destape website.

Situation is tense and several organizations attended to express their support to the workers of the plant.

'We all have to come, coworkers,' Hebe de Bonafini, president of Madres de Plaza de Mayo stated, who yesterday attended the place of the strike to support the protesters.

'If we all do not come we are going to lose, everything is surrounded. Every worker has to be here. Join us because tomorrow it could be you,' the activist and human rights defender stated.