US EditionArgentine workers go on strike to protest Milei's labor reforms
The CGT strike halted public transport, port operations, and services nationwide, opposing reforms that would cut sick pay, overtime, and weaken union rights, with 40% of workers unionized.
- On Thursday, Argentina’s largest labor unions called a one-day nationwide strike that began at midnight to protest President Javier Milei’s labour overhaul.
- Article 44 halves sick-leave pay to 50% and reduces coverage from twelve to six months, sparking union outrage as the lower house debates the reform Thursday.
- With buses, trains and subways halted, transport unions pledged full participation, paralysing Buenos Aires while Aerolíneas Argentinas cancelled 255 flights and public hospitals postponed non-emergency surgeries.
- The stoppage poses a political test as the bill, debated Thursday, must return to the Senate next week if approved by the lower house.
- Union leaders have vowed to challenge the reform in the courts amid a downturn with more than 21,000 companies shuttered and 300,000 jobs lost, raising risks for investors.
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Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies debates draft law that lowers dismissal and cuts multiple workers’ rights, amid the transport and service strike called by trade unions and other street mobilizations
This Thursday Buenos Aires dawned almost empty. The streets of the city far away were at the usual pace of a working day in Argentina and the movement looked like that of the morning of a Sunday. The reason is the general strike that has been called by the unions as a protest against the labor law promoted by the government of President Javier Milei . The adhesion of the transport sector, confirmed on the eve of the strike, has left the city par…
In protest against the planned labour market reform of Argentine President Milei, the unions have called for a further general strike for today.
Argentina wakes up without transport services for a general strike before the pol mica labor reform that will be debated in the C mara baja.
Labour reform, the flagship of its second half of the ultraliberal leader's term, will be debated by the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday.
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