Trade Union

Increases in prices not only they are taking place in enterprises of public services. They are also observed in the rest of the productive sectors although the permissibility official responds to other reasons. The companies put a day with price increases. They uprooted service stations with average increases of 5% in diesel oil and naphtha. The rise in the price of fuels, followed by insurance of the automotive (with increases that came up to 20%), medicine prepaid (with increases of 9% to 12%) and private education (with increases that while they were agreed in may, will govern in the month of August and reach a maximum increase of 36%). Also in intercity collectives, the expected adjustments that will go from 5% to 20% by the application of a new tariff regime.

This true Marathon of price increases taking place after the elections in Argentina, promises not to finish there and will expand to other sectors of the economy. So Argentina will enter a situation of stagflation that may worsen when begin Trade Union pressures (that appear unrelated to reality), by wage increases. Why the Government is maintained liabilities before this explosion of corrections to prices? Sincerely draws attention to this stance and is obviously contradictory to the official discourse of defend low-income segments of society to recompose the social justice. The unreasoned of the Government not doing something else that expose the true situation of the Argentine economy. Inflation is the lesser evil for the Government. After all, if there is inflation, which are not noticed they say those who manipulate the INDEC figures.

The price increase occurs amidst a panorama of high fragility in the labour market. Before the fall in activity, these price adjustments allow you to recompose the companies their financial results and thus avoid having to cut its staff. The gas distribution companies are among the beneficiaries with the rate increases.