At this point, we have to accept that there is no light at the end of the tunnel as we were told. Jobs are being lost, incomes are decreasing, and the quality of life for the entire population is deteriorating,” he stated. Regarding the salary for state public administration, the union leader pointed out that during 2025 the nominal increase was only 17.1%, which reflects a real fall of 14.4 points since inflation in the same period was 31.5%. “The destruction of wages and pensions has been a public policy. It cannot be that during 2025 the state wage talks were 14.4 points below inflation and that this was accepted by another union. Buenos Aires, January 13 (NA) – After the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of the Argentine Republic (INDEC) published that inflation accelerated in December to 2.8% and that the accumulated rate for 2025 was 31.5%, the General Secretary of ATE Nacional, Rodolfo Aguiar, assured that “the Government is the author of an economic nightmare.” “We are facing an economic stagnation. Since President Milei took office, wages have shown a constant decline,” warned Aguiar in a statement accessed by the Argentine News Agency. “Despite the government's promises, inflation continues to rise. We cannot start another year losing out,” Aguiar concluded. “It is evident that there is shared responsibility,” he pointed out. The criticism is directed at the UPCN union, which is the one with the legal personality to negotiate the sector's collective bargaining agreement. “The wage talks for the central public administration must be called immediately. The economy is not growing and people's purchasing power is decreasing. impoverishment is generalized and so far quite silent. We are going through a process that will be very difficult to reverse,” he lamented. Complementary to the monthly inflation data, INDEC reported that the Basic Basket that measures the poverty line reached $1,308,713. “It is clear that money is worth less and less and buys fewer things. If we do not react, it will get worse,” he warned. In this sense, Aguiar considered that “in the public sector, the responsibility of the union leadership must be debated. No more adjustment can be supported.”
