Overview
- The union vote held on December 29, 2025, proclaimed Lista Celeste '17 de Octubre' led by Luis Barrionuevo the winner with 121,334 votes as recorded by the Junta Electoral Central.
- UTHGRA filed for formal certification with the Ministry of Capital Humano on December 30, 2025, but the national government stayed silent for more than eight months and did not issue the required certificates.
- On Friday the Sala VI of the Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones del Trabajo granted Barrionuevo’s case and ordered the Secretaría de Trabajo to issue immediate provisional certification of the elected authorities.
- The court found no objections to the regularity of the December 29 election and ruled that the state’s delay caused concrete harm to the union’s institutional functioning and to the signing and conduct of collective bargaining agreements.
- The ruling restores the union’s ability to operate and negotiate wages and could lead to the rapid resumption of paritaria talks, while the certification remains subject to later judicial review in the ongoing legal dispute between union factions.