Overview
- State workers halted activities nationwide and marched to the Secretariat of Labor in Buenos Aires at midday, marking ATE’s first post-election strike.
- Non-teaching university staff represented by FATUN joined the 24-hour action, suspending activities at national universities, with other unions such as the oilseed federation announcing support.
- Union demands center on immediate reopening of wage bargaining, as Buenos Aires province resumed paritaria talks after weeks of pressure.
- Minister Federico Sturzenegger defended the reform’s goals of higher pay and more formal jobs and discussed debated points such as extending the workday, while the government prepares labor and tax bills for presentation in the coming days with texts not yet finalized.
- Tensions escalated after Security Minister Patricia Bullrich filed a criminal complaint against ATE leader Rodolfo Aguiar over alleged threats to constitutional order, which Aguiar rejected while reaffirming the right to strike.