Overview

• National Baker’s Day was established by the National Congress in 1957 to commemorate the founding of Argentina’s first bakers’ union on August 4, 1887.
• The Sociedad Cosmopolita de Resistencia y Colocación de Obreros Panaderos was founded in Buenos Aires by Italian anarchists Ettore Mattei and Errico Malatesta.
• In January 1888 the union staged its first strike for higher wages and was met with harsh police repression.
• Bakers named pastries with ironic titles such as “vigilantes,” “bombas” and “suspiros de monja” to mock the police, army and church.
• Although the original society is no longer active, the federations Fauppa and Faipa now negotiate labor conditions for bakers nationwide.