Overview

• Argentina’s Labor Secretariat imposed a conciliación obligatoria from 00:00 on September 26, requiring normal train operations for 15 days.
• La Fraternidad maintains reduced-speed precautions citing track and signaling risks and says it was not properly notified, denying a formal strike.
• Trenes Argentinos labels the slowdown a surprise, covert action that disrupted more than one million daily users across AMBA lines.
• Service remained uneven Friday morning: apps showed partial normalization on Sarmiento and San Martín, persistent delays and cancellations on Roca, and delays on Mitre branches.
• Union grievances include deteriorated infrastructure, staffing losses from voluntary departures, low pay, and inadequate accident insurance coverage.