The CGT Demanded a Face-to-Face Meeting of the Government to Discuss the Increase in the Minimum Wage
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Through Resolution 1/2026 published in the Official Gazette, the Government convened the members of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wages to update the SMVM. The parties will also define an increase for unemployment benefits. Thus, a virtual meeting was proposed by 12.30 p.m. on Friday, August 28. If the necessary quorum is not achieved, a second call was set for 14 hours on the same day. The agend…
The CGT rejected the method of videoconferencing called for August 28 and argued that the definition of the wage floor requires a "direct exchange" between the parties, because "the sustained deterioration of the income of the workers, the loss of registered jobs and the advance of labor precariousness".The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) formally demanded to the Government of Javier Milei that the next meeting of the National Council of E…
The workers’ headquarters presented a formal demand to the Secretariat of Labor for the summit of August 28 to leave the digital format. While the unions warn about the urgency of a real negotiation for the crisis, the government leaked data to lessen the weight of the discussion. Read more
In a note addressed to the alternate president of the Council and Undersecretary of Labor, Claudia Testa, the cegetist triumvirate called for the change of modality of the meeting because “the magnitude of the decisions to be taken requires the widest and genuine debate among the sectors that make up it”.
The central workers rejected the virtual session called by Labor and warned about the fall of registered employment. From the Executive they relativized the scope of the discussion.
The central workers questioned the virtual call and called for a face-to-face scope to discuss the labor and economic situation.
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