The Government published this week in the Official Gazette the new cost structure that recognizes for the operation of the groups in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) until June, with an increase in 17% in the subsidies and without forecast that there will be a rise in the rates paid by passengers.
Through resolution 8/2025 of the Ministry of Transportation, the Nation set the cost criteria of the Public Automotive Passenger Transportation Service in the AMBA, among other things, the new cars, new cars, spare parts and the salaries of the drivers. From there, one of the things that emerges is that the minimum ticket would continue at $ 371.13 For interjurisdictional lines, which cross General Paz Avenue or Riachuelo from the City of Buenos Aires to Buenos Aires municipalities.
But that same regulation suggests that the government does not provide new salary increases for drivers, who are attached to the Automotive Tram Union (UTA), and would leave salaries frozen in a basic $ 1,200,000 per month from January to June inclusive.
Those are the costs recognized by this structure. Official sources consulted by Clarion They pointed out that “if there is a parity, then it will be adjusted, but money will not be given to account, as reported to the entrepreneurs and the governments of the city and the province of Buenos Aires.”
The conflict arises because at the time of discussing peer between the union and the cameras, entrepreneurs cannot commit to paying something that the government might not recognize it, given that its income comes mostly -Choor 70%– of the State Fund (the subsidies), while the Ministry of Labor can also hinder an agreement so as not to compromise the fiscal objective of the Ministry of Economy.
This is why the UTA Secretary General, Roberto Fernández, expressed his “total repudiation.” “Workers’ salaries They will not be the variable of the adjustment intended by the national authorities, which intervenes in complicity and collusion with entrepreneurs, with increasingly and poorer workers. Without adequate salary recomposition there will be no transport. Salaries are the support of our families, we will not resign them. With the workers he did not fuck, “he warned.
According to the Argentine Association of Automotive Transportation Entrepreneurs (AAETA), between January and June 2025, the sum of the nation, the city and the province will allocate about $ 172,221.6 million in subsidies to the groups, 20% more than until the end of 2024. The Nation will put $ 86,704.6 million, just 10% more.
“The deterioration of income continues regarding inflation during 2025, since the projected technical rate (which really receives an operator between rates and subsidies by passenger transported) will be increased between October 2024 and June 2025 only 17%, against projected inflation for the same period of 21%. The real cost per trip is $ 1,509 for January, which still has a gap greater than 20% between what is recognized by rates and subsidies with respect to the real costs of operating a service according to the exploitation permits, “the entrepreneurs completed.