Article 920 Federal Labor Law

The strike proceeding shall be initiated by means of the presentation of the statement of demands, which shall meet the following requirements:

I.It shall be addressed in writing to the employer and in it the requests shall be formulated, the purpose of going on strike shall be announced if they are not satisfied, the object of the strike shall be concretely expressed and the day and hour at which the work shall be suspended, or the term of the pre-strike period, shall be indicated;

II.It shall be presented in duplicate to the competent Court. If the company or establishment are located in a place different from that in which the Court resides, the brief may be presented to the nearest jurisdictional organ or to the political authority of highest hierarchy of the place of location of the company or establishment. The organ or authority that makes the service shall forward the case file, within the following twenty-four hours, to the competent Court; and shall notify it by telephone, or by any electronic means;

III.The notice for the suspension of the work shall be given at least six days in advance of the date set for suspending the work and ten days in advance in the case of public services, observing the legal provisions of this Law. The term shall be counted from the day and hour on which the employer is notified.

IV.When the strike proceeding has as its object obtaining from the employer or employers the conclusion of the collective employment contract in terms of Article 450, section II of this Law, the Proof of Representativeness (Constancia de Representatividad) issued by the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (Centro Federal de Conciliación y Registro Laboral) shall be attached to the strike notice, in accordance with the proceeding established in Article 390 Bis;

V.When the strike proceeding has as its object obtaining from the employer or employers the conclusion of the law-contract in terms of section III of Article 450 of this Law, the Proof of Representativeness issued by the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration shall be attached to the strike notice, or it shall be mentioned that a collective employment contract is in force in the company, indicating the number or file number of its registration before the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, and

VI.When the strike proceeding has as its object those contemplated in sections I, IV, V, VI or VII of Article 450 of this Law, as well as that provided in section II of said Article with regard to the contractual review, in order to prove that the union giving notice is the holder of the collective employment contract or the administrator of the law-contract, the Registration Certificate of the collective contract issued by the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration or the acknowledgment of receipt of the brief in which said Certificate was requested shall be attached to the strike notice.