“Our delegates in supermarkets inform us of daily remarks. Prices are dollarized and wages are in Argentine pesos. People earn little because the government sets the salary. There is no freedom.” He speaks as an economic analyst but he is the Secretary General of Commerce, Armando Cavalieri. In any case “people earn little.”
A few days ago we reviewed the worst peers that the CGT is signing. In that field there are almost almost internal ones, there are no “fat vs. Moyanistas.” If registered workers were one of the sectors that had least lost, Milei is bending them guild by Gremio. That is one of the explanations of the 10th general strike. The domes had to stop by the discomfort from below and that discomfort was the one that printed forcefulness, surprising the bureaucracy itself.
But let’s go to the numbers. The 10 peers confirming that the salary devaluation is already underway:
Trade: 1.7% for January, for February and for March. That is, only in March lost 2 points.
Truckers: It always prioritized and had a reputation for good salaries, now agreed 1.2% in March, 1% in April and 1% in May. In addition a fixed sum. Then in March only one third of “real” inflation (which is not so real) increased.
UOM: It agreed for March now to 1%. Almost a quarter of the “price index.”
UPCN: agreed 1.3 the same week that the INDEC data was known. One third.
Gastronomic: It’s brutal. Makes the “scale” backwards that the cost of living: 1% in March, 0.8% in April and 0.5% in May.
Plastics: He signed 2.5 per month between April and July, with two remunerative sums of 25 thousand pesos. Also below.
Buenos Aires state: In the provincial administration, teachers, health, they signed with Axel Kicillof a 2% increase in March. He remained late. Will the governor progress and “anti -caputo” return what lost and make a mobile scale where the increases are consistent with inflation? We play no.
UOCRA: agreed a rise of 4.3% quarterly, with additional 1% in March and a fixed sum of $ 20,000. Below.
Health: The Héctor Daer guild. Although it has different agreements, the general is 1.7% in March and 1.6% in April. Bad.
Telecommunications: 2.8% in March and 2.57% in April, including productivity and shift concepts.
These sectoral data are confirmed with what the studies of all negotiations say. According to the CP consultant, 80% of the agreements show monthly drops at this beginning of the year. And the Ministry of Labor itself almost 70% of the 2025 peers were below inflation.
Do you feel you lost more? Sure. Inflation does not express real life costs and also food rose more.
The issue is that the Milei-FMI pact means that this dollar model and free prices, frozen and footprints will get worse.
But that will push, at the same time, a combo that can be explosive. We already saw in 2024 many resistance struggles despite union conductions. Even during the Fernández-Fernández government we saw waves of salary struggles. Adhesion to unemployment confirmed that the weather is heating. That is why we play ourselves to say that salary conflicts will increase in the coming months. Bureaucracy itself needs not to continue losing prestige and negotiation power.
The left and its class groups, which never left the street, will boost the fight in defense of the labor and popular pocket. Against the IMF’s peers, we must demand in each guild that assemblies and a struggle plan to stop this robbery are convened. The flags are clear:
This attack on salaries and retirement is part of a plan that brings more submission, hunger and countertops or cuts to the most vulnerable sectors such as disability. That is why we have to boost the widest mobilization against the IMF, against this agreement but also demanding the sovereign ignorance of the entire debt scam. Not only the one that Milei agreed, but also the one taken by Macri and legalized by the government of the front of all. Only that break can prevent national decline from being deepened.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
