The national government scheme is designed to «grant a rapid and responsible treatment to this initiative, which seeks to leave behind a labor model that no longer responds to the country's reality», as the Office of the President demanded from Congress. This is a context marked by debates with protests in the streets and the demand from the CGT and other central unions for a General Strike. In this context, on Thursday, December 18, when the Congress debates the 2026 Budget, the CGT will gather from 15:00 at Plaza de Mayo to «stop the labor reform and defend Argentine labor», according to the call's slogan, in addition to a march «in defense of work, wages, and national production». However, the CGT will not call for a General Strike or a plan of action, measures that various sectors urgently demand, given the danger to the entire set of labor rights. Protests will also be replicated in different parts of the country. On Tuesday, December 16, the debate on the labor reform formally begins in the Senate, with the formation of the Labor and Social Security and Budget and Finance commissions, a key step that the government of Javier Milei is pushing, within the framework of extraordinary sessions and with open negotiations with governors and allied blocs, with the aim of obtaining express treatment to bring its Labor Reform project to Congress before December 20, trying to achieve its approval before the end of the year. Patricia Bullrich, former Minister of Security and new head of the La Libertad Avanza bloc, will lead the Labor and Social Security commission, while the Budget and Finance commission will be chaired by Ezequiel Atauche. Furthermore, the 191 sections unanimously mandated the National Leadership to define the possibility of carrying out surprise protests during the month of December. «The Council of Mayo ended up being a trap for the union movement. It is a form of protest to show discontent,» explained Jerónimo. WE MARCH AGAINST THE LABOR REFORM This Thursday 12/18 at 3 PM we march to Plaza de Mayo to stop the labor reform and defend Argentine labor. Meanwhile, on the same Thursday, ATE National calls for a 24-hour strike and also mobilizes at 3 PM to Plaza de Mayo. «Months have passed and they have presented no proposal. Every comma of the labor reform is being written in the Techint offices,» pointed out Rodolfo Aguiar, General Secretary of ATE National. Combative and left-wing unions are mobilizing to Plaza de Mayo with the demand for a General Strike to the CGT and the central unions. With the slogan «Down with the enslaving Labor Reform», combative and left-wing unions will march at 15:00 from Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio to Plaza de Mayo, where from 18:00 they will hold a joint act. «Let's defeat the repressive penal reform and the package of laws against the working people». Thus, this Tuesday, December 16, the formal debate begins in the Senate, with the formation of the Labor and Social Security and Budget and Finance commissions. In this context, on Thursday, December 18, when the Congress debates the 2026 Budget, the CGT will gather from 15:00 at Plaza de Mayo, without calling for a General Strike and a plan of action, measures that various sectors urgently demand, given the danger to the entire set of labor rights. Meanwhile, combative and left-wing unions will march at 15:00 from Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio to Plaza de Mayo, where from 18:00 they will hold a joint act. The government seeks express treatment to issue a ruling in the coming days and bring its Labor Reform project to Congress before December 20. The Glacier Law is not touched. We demand an active national strike from the CGT and the CTA and a plan of struggle to defeat all of Milei's, Trump's, and the IMF's plan. Enough persecution of the Garrahan workers, the independent piquetero movement, and all fighters. Defense of the right to strike, collective bargaining agreements, union democracy, salary and pension increases. No layoffs. Enough closures,» are the main slogans of the call signed by unions, sections, internal commissions, recovered factories, retiree organizations, university centers, student movements, social movements, feminist groups, gender and dissidence spaces, lawyer associations, human rights organisms, and left-wing political parties. In addition to the mobilizations that will take place in the City of Buenos Aires, the rejection of the Labor Reform will be replicated in different parts of the country.
