Overview

• Starting in September, clinical staff receive a monthly complement of $450,000 pesos and administrative employees $350,000 pesos.
• Hospital leaders say the payments come from efficiency savings and maintain the center “is not in emergency,” a stance backed by Health Minister Mario Lugones.
• Unions ATE and APyT call the fixed sums a temporary patch that do not go to the basic salary or paritarias, and they proceeded with a 48-hour strike that began Tuesday morning.
• Hospital sources describe the plan as indefinite, but workers report notices indicating the complements run through December or for four months.
• The labor fight intensifies after the Chamber of Deputies rejected President Javier Milei’s veto, as lawmakers and workers allege roughly $40,000 million pesos in own-source funds were held in an investment account.