"The Government remains determined to destroy public employment and we have to prevent it," defended Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of the State Workers Association (ATE).

The State Workers Association (ATE), the largest union of public sector workers in Argentina, has called a new strike, without a specific date, lasting 24 hours, to show its rejection of the Bases Law.

The day this is debated, public employees, called by ATE, will go on a 24-hour strike and will mobilize "en masse" to Congress to demand that senators completely reject it.

According to what they have reported, if the Base Law is approved, it will mean "a tragedy for the workers." This initiative that is going to be brought to the venue contains an "absolutely regressive" labor reform in terms of rights, and particularly in public employment it contemplates a direct and non-stop regression "to the last military dictatorship", in the words of the secretary general from ATE, Rodolfo Aguiar.

"The Government remains determined to destroy public employment and we have to prevent it," Aguiar defended this Monday, after this strike was called by the ATE congress.

This mobilization could take place on Thursday or Friday of this week, depending on whether the Senate's agenda is confirmed in the coming days, taking into account the parliamentary arithmetic that allows the Government to approve the law.

Likewise, for the end of June, the union is planning a new measure of force that would include strikes and mobilizations in reaction to the wave of layoffs that threatens the public administration.