He also anticipated that they will carry out 'surprise' protests throughout December
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The State Workers Association (ATE), led by the coup plotter Rodolfo Aguiar, decided to move forward with a national strike on the same day Congress debates the labor reform promoted by the Government of Javier Milei, even though it has not even been submitted yet.
The measure was unanimously decided during the Federal Council held in San Luis, where the 191 sections of the country also authorized the national leadership to organize violent protests throughout December.
The union stated that the dialogue instance established in the May Council supposedly did not fulfill its function. "The May Council ended up being a trap for unionism. A distracting space used by the Government to delay the process. All the conditions are in place to call a general strike," declared ATE's national leader, Rodolfo Aguiar, justifying the call for a possible general strike.
Rodolfo Aguiar, titular de ATE.
However, the union's decision comes in a context where Milei's Government recently received broad electoral support in the October legislative elections, with more than 40% of the votes, strengthening its political mandate to push for reforms.
In addition, the labor reform project that ATE rejects has not yet been formally submitted, which fuels criticism about the premature and confrontational nature of the strike action.
Meanwhile, as the Executive continues outlining the final aspects of the initiative, ATE's leadership is hardening its stance and accelerating its conflict calendar, even though the details of the project to be debated in Congress are not yet known.
Rodolfo Aguiar, titular de ATE.
The complaint against Aguiar
A few weeks ago, the national Government filed a criminal complaint against Rodolfo Aguiar, after the union leader publicly stated that "his job is to provoke a crisis in this government," amid the debate over labor reform by Milei's administration.
The complaint was filed by the Ministry of Security, under the direct instruction of Patricia Bullrich, and was lodged with the Federal Justice. The document was signed by Fernando Oscar Soto, National Director of Regulations and Relations with Judicial Powers and Public Ministries.
The exact excerpt that prompted the complaint was literally Aguiar's phrase during a television program: "I want to say this with complete sincerity... My job, our job, is to provoke a crisis in this government."
