The Metalworkers’ Union denounced the move, warning that in the face of these layoffs, “workers remain on alert and mobilized, and will decide in an assembly what measures to take to demand job security for their colleagues.”

  These layoffs affect residents of Buenos Aires province and the rest of the country due to the absence of an industrial promotion policy under Javier Milei’s economic regime.

BWhat began as a wage dispute in various provincial government sectors—they add—has evolved into a state of constant tension affecting education, healthcare, public administration, and security forces.

  Demonstrations outside the Government House have ceased to be isolated incidents and have become a constant occurrence. Teachers, healthcare workers, state employees, and provincial police officers are maintaining various forms of protest, demanding wage adjustments to recover purchasing power lost during the libertarian administration.

  According to unions and workers, several sectors have not received a wage adjustment since September of last year, even as the cost of living continues to rise.

  Unions complain that daily life remains defined by price hikes for food, rent, fuel, medicines, and essential public services such as gas, electricity, water, and telecommunications. New rate increases for all these services have been announced for July.

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