The State Workers Association (ATE) called for a 24-hour work stoppage, pointing out that the measures taken by the country’s leadership “attack the public system as a whole, through severe salary cuts, attempts to close down agencies, and threats of dismissal.”

It also demanded the renewal of more than 70,000 work contracts in the National Public Administration that will expire on March 31.

“We are facing an Executive that is violent in its discourse and insensitive in its attacks on workers and retirees,” ATE General Secretary Rodolfo Aguiar said.

“They continue cutting salaries and pensions without mercy. They are using inflation and an expired budget as tools to carry out a phenomenal adjustment in the State,” he added.

Aguiar also specified that the measure of force takes place within the context of a struggle plan of the Front of State Unions and Public Enterprises.

The Central Workers of Argentina-Autonomous (CTA-A) and the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), in turn, hold a national day of struggle to express their rejection of the adjustment and the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) signed by Milei to reform or repeal more than 300 laws.

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