The governorate also received judicial officers
With less certainty than uncertainty, the The Buenos Aires Provincial Government continued the joint negotiation round Which he resumed on Tuesday with state employees. Yesterday it was the turn of the unions that make up the Front of the Teaching Unit of Buenos Aires (FUDB) and the Judicial Association of Buenos Aires (AJB). Separately – and as is the case with the employees of the Public Administration – both sectors left the meeting without any offer of salaries and with the feeling that any increase, as well as the timely payment of bonus and even the call for a future meeting, would be linked to the legislature’s approval of the budget laws, financial and tax laws and, above all, the debt request requested by the Axel Kiselov administration.
At least this is what the union sources who sat at the discussion table told this newspaper.
In this sense, the unions of Amit, February, Sadobe, Sutiba and Odokuba, which make up the FUDB, chose the title of the statement they issued after the meeting: “Increasing salaries is the priority, which is why the legislature must approve the budget laws.”
Without any euphemisms, the text of the union directed all the pressure on opposition legislators and internal sectors of the regional ruling party, such as La Campora and the Renewal Front, which for days had given a mandate to the budget and the tax prosecutor, but not to the financing law, the treatment of which has been postponed to next week and which is crucial for the province to comply with commitments such as the liquidation of the December supplementary annual salary or to move forward with some improvement.
As reported by El Día newspaper, the legislative tension, which has now moved to the joint, has already been exacerbated in the meeting with the States Parties. Yesterday he was present again at the double appointment with the teachers and judges.
According to the FUDB statement, officials from the Ministry of Labor and Finance and the General Directorate of Culture and Education heard teachers’ complaints and expressed the government’s decision to continue addressing the work schedule and salaries. But they explained that they were “waiting for the budget laws to be addressed in the Legislative Council.”
For their part, the professors, whose last increase of 5% (in two installments) dates back to August and have accumulated an increase of 25.9% so far, put forward their priority demand: “that there be a new restructuring and increase” to restore lost purchasing power, at a time when they put forward “the necessity of continuing equality negotiations” among other demands.
They stressed the need for the Legislative Council to approve laws that affect the integrity of the governorate’s budget “to guarantee salaries and public education.”
A technical — but not simple — fact to consider is that on these days the county must actually begin reconciling November salaries collected in December. Therefore, any advance salary improvements will not be accrued until January of next year.
Even without an offer and in light of the actual stagnation of the joint agreement, the Teachers Union Front appreciated the “political decision of the provincial government to continue” the salary discussion. It is an area that the sector considered “essential to defend and build workers’ rights,” while they targeted Casa Rosada “for the impact of economic policy, to which the national deficit in public education and teacher salaries is compounded by the brutal revision of the 2026 education budget.”
Judicial joint
On the other hand, the meeting with the judiciary was almost a carbon copy of the meeting that provincial officials held with state officials and teachers.
The Justice and Equality Association, headed by its Secretary General Hugo Rousseau, was unable to accept an offer from the meeting in which it demanded, among other demands, “the urgent need to implement an increase in judicial power during the last two months of the year, which is thought to offset the accumulated inflation.”
According to the statement issued by the union, “The executive received all the proposals and informed that it will meet again as soon as possible to continue the discussion and be able to evaluate a concrete proposal for the latter part of this year.”
But the sources who participated in the meeting held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor, on 7 between 39 and 40, acknowledged that the governorate conveyed to them that there would be no invitation or progress in the negotiations until the fate of the laws presented for discussion in the Legislative Council was decided.
A union spokesman admitted: “They will not contact us until the budget is approved and, above all, the debt is approved. This is what we understood, because the government is very focused on the need for financing to know what resources it has to finish this year and face next year.”
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