Overview
- ATE, which announced the action Thursday after a national meeting, set a nationwide strike and street march for Tuesday, April 21, to press for a reopening of paritarias, Argentina’s collective pay bargaining for public employees.
- The union’s national board, with delegates from all 23 provinces and Buenos Aires City, approved the move as each district now defines how it will protest.
- Secretary general Rodolfo Aguiar said the government has not called talks and warned the union will escalate with more stoppages if there is no response.
- Under the June 2025 to May 2026 bargaining period, ATE says granted raises run two points below inflation and have left state workers with more than a 44% loss in purchasing power.
- The union will also join FATE tire workers in a Plaza de Mayo march on April 14 to back factory reactivation and oppose wider import openings.