In the framework of the struggle, starting at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, workers will gather at the gates of Fate and Bridgestone, protesting against the «delaying tactics of the tire employers» in response to their demands for a salary increase. The protest will also include a «great solidarity festival» starting at 7:00 PM in front of the Fate plant (Blanco Encalada 3003, in the Buenos Aires locality of San Fernando), featuring Daniel Lescano from Flor de Piedra, Las Manos de Filippi, Mal Pasar, Suburbio Rock, and murgas. In an urgent communiqué, the Single Union of Tire Workers (SUTNA) announced that on the eve of Christmas, it will carry out a struggle measure that will include a 24-hour strike (from 2:00 PM this Tuesday, December 23, to 2:00 PM on Wednesday, December 24) and a demonstration in front of the Fate and Bridgestone factories. The measure is, according to the union, «against the delaying tactics of the tire employers» regarding their salary increase demands, in a context where «the employers have not given any salary increase to the workers all year long,» they denounce. Along these lines, they emphasize: «defending the salary is defending the living conditions of our families». Within the framework of the struggle measure, tire workers will hold a «great solidarity festival» starting at 7:00 PM in front of the Fate plant (Blanco Encalada 3003, in the Buenos Aires locality of San Fernando), featuring Daniel Lescano from Flor de Piedra, Las Manos de Filippi, Mal Pasar, Suburbio Rock, and murgas. «We call on all worker organizations to participate in these actions, and particularly on the families of the workers and the neighbors to attend the solidarity festival,» they call out. The SUTNA's struggle measure comes in the context of the stagnation of sectoral collective bargaining negotiations in the tire industry, which in the case of Fate, is compounded by the fact that the company did not grant a single increase throughout 2025. On the eve of Christmas, tire workers united in the Single Union of Tire Workers (SUTNA) announced they will hold a 24-hour strike from 2:00 PM on Tuesday, 23, until 2:00 PM on Wednesday, 24. «The workers' patience has run out,» highlighted SUTNA's general secretary, Alejandro Crespo, in statements to Gestión Sindical. The tire employers use delaying tactics to impose starvation wages and deepen precariousness. In this context, the union has been warning that they will not accept wage cuts or agreements that consolidate the loss of purchasing power. «In the last of these meetings, held at the Work headquarters last Friday, the firms directly did not offer salary increases».
