Pope Leo XIV Urges Dignity for Workers During Politically Charged Argentina Visit
He warned that profit-first business models and unregulated automation are dehumanizing workers as unions say 45% of Argentina’s labor force is informal.
- On Monday, Pope Leo XIV praised trade unions as "indispensable" during his address at the Catholic University in Argentina, emphasizing workers' dignity before labor and business leaders.
- Argentine President Javier Milei's labor reforms adopted in February curtailed strike rights, prompting critics to view the Pope's warning that "when economic profit is established as the sole criterion of success, a business becomes dehumanised" as a rebuke to his libertarian agenda.
- Since Milei took office, around 270,000 private-sector jobs have been scrapped and informal labor now accounts for 45% of the workforce, while the Pope's Mass drew an estimated 2.5 million people—the largest crowd of his papacy.
- Before the Mass, the Pope visited the Cottolengo Don Orione, a facility housing more than 400 people with disabilities, where authorities paid about $535,000 ahead of his arrival to cover four of the 12 months owed.
- The Pope stressed that "technology must always be subject to ethics," adding that algorithms cannot replace human discernment, and urged Argentina to build a future grounded in "social friendship" overcoming polarization.
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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"
Pope defends trade unions as 'indispensable' in Argentina
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Leon XIV led the meeting with the "work world" at the headquarters of the UCA of Puerto Madero. He reclaimed the social doctrine of the Church and seemed to send a message to the Government stressing that "access to the world of work must continue to be a priority objective of public policies.
León XIV has attacked unemployment in Argentina during a meeting in Buenos Aires with employers, trade unionists, workers and representatives of popular movements. For the Pontiff, depriving of the job is “severely wounding the dignity” of people, “annulling their ability to contribute to society and immerse them in social exclusion.” According to the report ‘Argentina receiving the Pope’, of the Argentine Center for Political Economy (CEPA), si…
Buenos Aires, Nov 9 (EFE).- Pope Leon XIV said this Monday that "the challenges of artificial intelligence and deregulated automation can put at risk so many jobs and become a real threat to the proper integral human development", in his speech to the world of work in Buenos Aires, [...] La entrada The Pope says in Buenos Aires that depriving a person of the job is hurting his dignity was first published in HolaNews.
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catholicsabah.comPope: Human dignity must always prevail over profit
Addressing social movements and the world of work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Leo XIV stresses that human dignity must always be the top priority, businesses must keep humanity at the heart of their decisions, and technology must always be subject to ethics.Read all
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