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Partial Bus Shutdown Hits Buenos Aires as UTA Enforces Pay-Linked Work Stoppages

The work-to-rule action targets companies that failed to deposit full November wages despite a late subsidy increase intended to ease operators’ cash shortfalls.

Overview

  • The UTA confirmed a retention of tasks from 00:00 Friday for firms that did not credit full November salaries, triggering partial service suspensions across AMBA routes.
  • Argentina’s Transport Secretariat issued Resolution 86/2025 on Thursday, updating the cost matrix and lifting subsidies by roughly 15% to steady cash flow and discourage a broader halt.
  • Service is uneven and changing through the day as payments clear, with some lines resuming operations and others maintaining abstention until further notice.
  • Transport chambers had proposed splitting November pay and staggering the aguinaldo, a plan the union rejected as shifting the sector’s liquidity stress onto drivers.
  • Separately in Peru, transport unions are weighing a 48-hour national strike between December 15 and 17 after extortion attacks and the murder of a Chorrillos bus driver that police linked to prior threats.