Hugo Yasky

Hugo Yasky (born 10 October 1949) is an Argentine teacher, union leader and politician. Since 2006 he has been Secretary-General of the Argentine Workers' Central Union (CTA), a major trade union federation in Argentina. Since 2017 he has additionally been a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires Province.

Yasky is also vice president of New Encounter, a kirchnerist political party affiliated to the Frente de Todos.

Biography Hugo Yasky was born in 1949 in Ramos Mejía, a city in the Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. His family is of Romanian-Jewish origin, although he was raised in a Jewish secular household. His grandfather was the first Socialist local councillor in Ramos Mejía.

He started working as a teacher in 1971, aged 21. He joined the teachers' union, and voted for the creation of the CTERA union in 1973. He was fired in 1978, during the National Reorganization Process. He started to work again in 1981, in Lomas de Zamora, recreating the local teachers' union. He was elected secretary general of SUTEBA in 1994.

He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in the 2017 legislative election.

Electoral history + Election Office List District Votes Result . Total % . 2017 National Deputy Unidad Ciudadana 6 Buenos Aires Province 3,383,114 36.28% 2nd 2021 Frente de Todos 8 Buenos Aires Province 3,444,446 38.59% 2nd 2025 Fuerza Patria 13 Buenos Aires Province 3,558,527 40.91% 2nd