Pope Leo XIV Urges Dignity for Workers During Politically Charged Argentina Visit
The pope said unions are indispensable and warned that profit alone can dehumanize work as Argentina faces a 7.9% unemployment rate.
- On Monday in Argentina, Pope Leo XIV delivered a sweeping tribute to workers' dignity, a message critics of President Javier Milei interpreted as a rebuke to his libertarian agenda and labor reforms.
- His visit began at the Cottolengo Don Orione, a home housing more than 400 people with disabilities, where authorities recently provided about $535,000 for medicine and food amid scrutiny of government spending.
- The Vatican reported an estimated 2.5 million people attended the Pope's first Mass in Argentina, where he quoted the 'three Ts' of social justice: 'tierra, techo y trabajo,' or land, housing and work.
- Pope Leo XIV declared trade unions 'indispensable' when addressing labor and business leaders, warning that businesses become 'dehumanised' when profit is established as the sole criterion of success.
- Argentina's economic struggles underpin the visit, with informal jobs climbing to 45 percent, the minimum pension at about $300, and mass layoffs pushing unemployment to 7.9 percent, its highest level since 2021.
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Pope Leo XIV also called for trade unions to extend "the hand to workers in precarious situations, to informal workers and to those excluded from the formal system"
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