In a press conference this morning, Osvaldo Jaldo, accompanied by the entire provincial cabinet, announced the provincial government’s support for the slave labor reform project that Milei and the employers’ associations have on the agenda. At that same conference he also announced that he will accompany the reform of the penal code that aims, among other things, to lower the age of imputability to 13 years. Jaldei returned and anticipated, before any other governor, his support for the attacks prepared by the national government.
Under the euphemism of “modernizing” labor laws, Jaldo and the entire PJ cabinet propose supporting the measures to cut rights and advance labor rights. The announcement was accompanied by Vice Governor Miguel Acevedo, Rossana Chahla, Federico Masso, and ministers.
“We cannot oppose updating labor laws. Today we have technology, computing, artificial intelligence, robotics that are not contemplated in labor law. But the modifications do not go backwards, because no law is retroactive,” said Jaldo.
With total cynicism, Jaldo proposes that the acquired labor rights will not be touched, a lie with which they intend to divide the workers. The reform drafts that are circulating today make it clear that they seek to facilitate layoffs, curtail the right to strike and establish that 12 or 14 hour work days are legal. He even referred to the possibility of regionalizing collective agreements, such as that of the UTA, anticipating that it will give local employers the possibility of reducing salaries. We can’t allow it!
Under the name “Tucuman First” all Peronism, including Kirchnerism in Tucumán with the now deputy Javier Noguera, came out to propose that they would put a stop to Milei. In reality, and it became very clear, they were campaign slogans to gather wills based on deception and support the libertarian plan. A new electoral scam.
So far, neither deputy Pablo Yedlin nor Javier Noguera have commented on this official decision. Let us remember that in May 2024, the mayor of Tafi Viejo, Alejandra Rodriguez, wife of Javier Noguera, signed a petition asking Tucumán deputies and senators to vote on the Base Law. And Javier Noguera himself signed as a legislator a request for support for Osvaldo Jaldo when the Omnibus Law was being discussed and the governor had already anticipated his “dialogue” stance with the Casa Rosada.
The unity agreement in Tucumán Peronism for these elections was given under the condition of canceling the “Fuerza Patria” seal, which Yedlin and Noguera promoted and which did not last even two weeks, and in exchange for a place for the former mayor of Tafí Viejo on the list of deputies. That agreement included the return of the Taficeño municipality to the “Fiscal Pact” and the closing of an open dispute with the governor for more than 15,000 million pesos.
From the left, a plan was proposed that was completely opposite to that of Milei, Peronism and the bosses. They want to deepen the freedom to exploit, more precarious work, more facilities for firing. The development of technology, unlike what the chorus of Jaldo, Milei and Sturzenegger says, could serve, on the contrary, to reduce the working day and distribute the work between all available hands; all work 6 hours, 5 days, with full rights and with a salary equal to the family basket. It is not true that by handing over rights, jobs are defended, the Tucumán lemon is a great example, where based on temporary hiring they were laying off permanent and plant workers in many packaging companies such as Citrusvil itself.
Against the plans of the Slavic bosses, and which have the approval of libertarians and Peronists, we must set up resistance in the streets against the reform plan, uniting all the forces to confront it in the streets. From the PTS in the Left Front we call to set up a great coordinator against labor reform to confront this attack by winning the streets and to impose on the union bureaucracies a plan of struggle at the level of the ongoing attacks.
“We cannot oppose updating labor laws.” Surprise: Jaldo came out to support labor reform. And he wants to deepen the fact that Tucumán is a reservoir of cheap labor, which is why he proposes attacking collective agreements. pic.twitter.com/rg0r0meCOT
— Alejandra Arreguez (@AleArreguezPTS) November 3, 2025
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
