Overview
- The City of Buenos Aires published Decree 230 on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, formally adopting national Labor Modernization Law changes and requiring minimum service levels during union stoppages.
- The decree sets concrete thresholds of 75% for waste collection and 50% for subte lines, Premetro and buses that operate only within the city.
- It instructs Subterráneos de Buenos Aires (SBASE) and concessionaire Emova to define how trains will run and orders the City Secretariat of Labor and Employment to convene parties and enforce compliance.
- Jorge Macri framed the move as a way to stop what he called union 'extortion,' signaling a political clash that follows other recent deregulatory moves backed by the libertarian bloc in the city legislature.
- Next steps include administrative rule-making, line-by-line modalities, monitoring and likely legal or bargaining fights over enforcement, with the details of sanctions and daily operations still to be published.