ATE general secretary Rodolfo Aguiar denounced that the executive decided to annihilate collective bargaining. The government’s offer, which is “an insult,” materializes the freezing of salaries in the public administration. “This is unacceptable,” he said, recalling that during the months since 2024, wage earners lost 30 percent of their purchasing power.

The proposed increase is the equivalent of one chewy candy per day. For the average salary of the administration, the increase means five thousand pesos (around five dollars), Aguiar said. “They provoke us and offend us, and they are going to regret it. We are facing a Government of psychopaths who feel no guilt or remorse when destroying the lives of others. The impoverishment of workers and retirees is planned,” he asserted.

ATE also recently denounced that the Government intends to fire citizens opposed to La Libertad Avanza, those affiliated with other political formations, those who campaigned against the current administration, those who presented several medical certificates and people considered as “troublemakers.”

“This kind of layoffs that they want to carry out at the end of September are prohibited by all laws. These are discriminatory layoffs based on a political reason. For them, the worker who demands his rights is a conflict. They want us to be slaves,” said Aguiar, who added that “the authoritarianism of this Government is not compatible with democracy. They decided to violate the dignity of state officials and all people. This only happened during the dictatorship.”

Aguiar also recalled that there are more than 65 thousand workers at the State’s temporary plant whose employment relationships were renewed at the beginning of June for only 90 days, so they are at risk at the end of this month.

The union reiterated that the Justice Department declared on several occasions the illegality of the dismissals and urged all its members to define the continuity of the action plan.

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