The government will downgrade the strike day

ATE will mobilize to Congress, where the anti-picketing protocol awaits them. They also oppose new state layoffs and demand a salary increase.

12/09/2025 – 07:20 am

While the State Workers’ Association (ATE) When the government ordered a nationwide strike this Tuesday with protests across the country, it responded that it would discount the day for all public administration workers who comply with the violent measure. The trade union organization will not only suspend its activities, but at 11 a.m. it will mobilize Congress to reject the labor reform project that the executive has sent for discussion in the extraordinary sessions.

Although since then Pink house There was no official communication about the march, it is assumed that the anti-picketing protocol will be applied at this Tuesday’s demonstration. Social organizations, left-wing parties and trade unions affiliated in the CTA could be added to the state union’s call.

Task abandonment and march to Congress

In addition to the rejection of the work modernization initiative, the behavior of ASS He called for the “immediate reopening of joint ventures with an emergency salary adjustment” and rejected the renewed announcement of a 10 percent cut for state employees.

The general secretary of the union, Rodolfo Aguiarclaimed that “they will try to impose a regressive reform, but this time the only person in charge will not be Milei. The governors are necessary participants, primary accomplices of democracy’s greatest attack on all labor rights” and stressed that “some, even like Catamarca, have collected votes in their provinces by opposing national adjustment and now intend to support this policy. We do not rule out national mobilizations in these districts.”

According to reports, the City of Buenos Aires To allow workers to take part in the protest, there will be withdrawals from workplaces from 10:30 a.m. and each region will decide on the modalities of the day of protest, with the common denominator being the cessation of activities.

They denounce a new wave of layoffs of state employees

Aguiar explained: “The public sector is where we operate.” Salary emergency. With the help of some pseudo-unionists, our income has been destroyed” and he explained that “in the last 23 months we have lost more than 33 percent of our purchasing power.” “The government must convene joint negotiations and grant an immediate salary adjustment.”

The leader also opposed the Libertarian government’s decision to intensify workforce cuts in the public sector. In this regard, he warned that “the intention to reduce the size of the State by 10 percent, following the deregulation decrees of (Federico) Stützenegger. You can’t do it. “It would be illegal.”

He also revealed that the executive branch’s intention is to cut jobs in decentralized organizations like that anti-corruption office, the Indec, the Conicet, the Coneau, the ARCA, the General Archives of the Nation, the Anses, the Conadis, the Enargas, the Enre, the INTA, the INTI and the Enacom.

Finally, ATE insisted on an urgent recomposition of salaries, recalling that the board called via Zoom on November 28, a meeting attended by the union “without offer”, which strengthened the decision to proceed with the level of violence.