Overview
- ATE announced a 24-hour walkout at the National Institute of Industrial Technology to protest a restructuring the union says threatens jobs and services.
- Union statements cite Resolution 42/26, published in April, as cutting the institute’s budget and scrapping more than 1,000 services for “lack of real demand,” including food pathogen tests, water potability checks, metrology calibrations, and transport safety inspections.
- ATE says up to 700 employees could be dismissed and it plans workplace assemblies to decide next steps if officials do not respond.
- Officials dispute that INTI runs a deficit and denied owing funds to the University of Buenos Aires, underscoring a wider fight over public financing claims.
- INTI provides certifications and technical tests that many companies need to sell goods and meet safety rules, so prolonged service cuts could delay compliance and exports.