“A new chapter is opening in the confrontation that the Government maintains with the workers. A front of unity is growing and consolidating with the unions of the public and private sectors. We are going to mobilize Córdoba on February 5 and Rosario on the 10th. We have to expose the governors. Those who intend to endorse this reform must be made evident. It is a labor reform that does not go against the workers, it directly goes against Argentina,” he posted Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of the Association of State Workers (ATE), in his personal account of X.
On social networks, the union member anticipated that both his union and the Metallurgical Workers Union (UOM), the aeronautical association, the oil workers’ union and several other unions will launch a plan to fight against the labor reform proposed by Javier Milei’s administration. “He crossed a red line from which it will be very difficult to return. We must not rule out that the labor reform is for the president what the pension reform was for Macri. It is not going to be that with the stubbornness to destroy the unions and the workers, the discount time begins for the ruling party,” he warned.
In recent months, the Argentine labor movement activated a series of forceful measures in rejection of the labor reform proposal promoted by President Javier Milei and his political environment. State and private sector unions agreed in denouncing that the planned changes deepen restrictions on union activity that would affect historical labor protections and the ability to collectively bargain of the workers. The initiative, which modifies the Law of Trade Union Associations and regulates assemblies and delegates with new requirements, set off alarms in the labor centers when it began to be debated in the National Congress and in public opinion.
Faced with this scenario, several union organizations have already announced specific force measures. The Central of the Workers of Argentina (CTA of the Workers) and his ally Autonomous CTAtogether with unions grouped in the CGT (General Confederation of Labor)they went one step further by launching a coordinated fight plan which includes marches planned for the first days of February in Córdoba and Santa Fe. In addition to these organized marches, the same centers reaffirmed the decision to carry out strikes with mobilization the day the reform is discussed in Congress to make their rejection visible from different mobilization fronts.
In locations like Río Gallegos, province of Santa Cruzguilds like UOCRA, ATSA, SOEM, SEMCO and UPCNtogether with political and social organizations, have already carried out local mobilizations to express their opposition to the labor reform project, in a replica of the protests that are being replicated in different parts of the country as the legislative debate progresses. This multiplicity of actions reflects not only the discontent of state workers but also of the construction, services, health and public administration sectors, which fear for the reduction of labor guarantees and limitation of the right to strike.
These general strikes, although called at different times, show the central’s strategy to tension the political discussion around the reform proposed by the Executive and highlight the rejection of union sectors to changes that they consider regressive for the labor movement. Taken together, the forceful measures by state unions, private sector unions and the main labor confederations They mark a key confrontation point at the beginning of 2026.
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