Today the “notable group” was gathered for the second time in charge of advancing with the proposals signed by Milei and the majority of the governors on July 9, 2024. The May Pact is a decalogue of libertarian proposals. We have already written here and here of the subject.
The Government took a year to perform it but now it was given to organize one meeting after another. That will actually confirms a weakness. On July 9 Milei did not even achieve a photo with the governors with a wig, which a week later “betrayed him” in the Senate. That is just a series of the defeats that the government has been suffering. The internal between the CLAILLAS DE was intensified, the impact of the official corruption scandals grew, had several unfavorable failures such as those of roads and the anti-huelga decrees, to which you have to add the problems of the “economic plan”.
That is why a meeting that “could have been an email,” became the key to the official agenda on Monday. “With the presence of Julio Cordero, the May Council meets to discuss the labor reform,” said Clarín and other media.
At 9, Senator Carolina Losada (UCR), officials Guillermo Francos and Federico Sturzenneger, the president of the UIA, Martín Rappallini, the Mendoza governor Alfredo Cornejo, the deputy of the PRO Cristian Ritondo and the leader of the CGT, Gerardo Martínez.
No one from that table would buy a used car, right?
But the most novel presence was that of the Secretary of Labor, Julio “Techint” Cordero. Paolo Rocca’s former lawyer is the libertarian “labor portfolio” capo, but he is also in charge of negotiating laws and measures with the CGT. This was done in the Bases Law.
In recent weeks the government comes with a guerrilla war at that point. He launched a decree of deregulation of the merchant marine, which was suspended by Justice last week. He also attacked the pilot’s agreement, which motivated a unemployment in the sector. It also even more precarious to the residents and regulated the “labor cessation fund” in the most vulture way that occurred to him. The reforms by company are also seeing them in the industry: Molinos, Fate, Georgalos, to quote only a couple of examples.
That is the first essential fact: the government speaks of a “consensus” when in reality it is already applying by decree, as a pattern or as an endorsement to employers, a progress in fact in labor reforms.
Without contradicting that offensive, there is another essential fact, beyond the smoke of the headlines. The truth is that the government knows that it does not have the forces today for an overall attack, by law, of its entire plan. That for example is expressed in the 70/23 DNU whose work chapter is suspended. He wants to conquer that strength in the October elections or with great defeats to the working class. But none of things seems easy.
The case of the Garrahan is a symbol of all that. On the one hand it expresses the degree of impoverishment, precariousness and fragmentation in which the government has advanced, supported by what the previous ones left (which was not little). But at the same time the willingness of struggle, in that case of health personnel, who are also advancing in the unit and social support that showed the march of July 17.
With that panorama Vale adds the last fact. The role of Peronism. Although today they are not at that table, several of their governors signed the May Pact, in addition to allowing the labor reform of the Base Law. One of its main union referents, Gerardo Martínez, is there sent by 14 of the 15 members of the “Chico” of the CGT.
But they are not doing anything, except for some unions, against those advances. Rodolfo Daer lets the “reforms per company” pass in mills or georgalos, as UPCN betrays in the claw. Axel Kicillof himself plays for companies that make these reforms. Because when there is resistance and there are layoffs, the provincial Ministry of Labor says “nothing has happened here.” It is an unwritten “Cipayo Council.”
In that “Peronist unit” the collaboration of the CGT and the Buenos Aires adjustment are intended.
Gerardo Martínez sits on the May Council with Sturzenegger at the same time that supports Kicillof. Here there is no “shield” against Milei’s adjustment. There is a Peronism that negotiates, transa or surrenders to the adjustment of the government, the IMF and the great capital. pic.twitter.com/NjnuGKhOgq
– Eduardo Castilla (@Castillaeduardo) July 21, 2025
The Left Front, on the other hand, has been fighting. Seriously fight. Because it is part of most of those struggles but because it is also the only political force that comes together to the streets and the electoral battle where those different country projects will be put into play.
No pact with the adjusters. We must organize the fight against Milei’s plan and the IMF, defending the conquests and recovering those that took us from the 90s. That is our flag.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
