Milei Limits the Right to Strike in Argentina and Provokes the Repudiation of the Trade Union Movement

The Association of State Workers (ATE) is leading a national strike with more than 90% membership on Thursday, according to the union itself. The measure is carried out in rejection of the Decree of Necessity and Emergency 340/25, which limits the constitutional right to strike and redefines the category of “essential services.” READ ALSO: Argentine Police hurts about 80 people in the March of Retired People and detains two photoreporters “This …

Milei used a regulation on the merchant navy to smuggle in the almost complete elimination of the right to strike. He had already tried it at UND 70, but the Justice considered it unconstitutional and was suspended pending the Court’s definition, which is an unusual silence. All experts consider it completely illegal.

The government of the Argentine president Javier Milei issued the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) 340/2025, by which it restricts the right to strike in various strategic sectors, expanding the number of activities considered "essential". The regulation obliges to guarantee a minimum functioning of between 50% and 75% in case of labor paralysis,

Andrés Rodríguez, deputy secretary of the trade union center, said they will appeal to the justice system just as they did to DNU 70/23 The post Right to strike in danger: the CGT will appeal to the justice system by the new decree of the government appeared first on Trade and Justice.

“This government wants to push us back more than a century in the area of labour rights. They attack the right to strike because for workers it is our most lethal weapon,” said Rodolfo Aguiar, the head of ATE Nacional. In the early hours of the National Stoppage of ATE, the union removed more than 90% of membership throughout the country and in the Federal Capital will begin the cessation of work starting at noon to mobilize the Ministry of Econ…

Once again, the National Government makes use of a Decree (340/2025) to try to make working conditions more flexible, in a clear violation of the gains enshrined in our National Constitution and without a doubt, trying to favor the most powerful groups of Cipayos entrepreneurs, who care nothing about the national industry.