BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s largest umbrella union, the highly effective Common Confederation of Labor (CGT), introduced on Thursday it’s going to maintain a broad 24-hour strike on April 10 in protest of President Javier Milei’s financial austerity measures and reforms.
Milei has overseen a dramatic discount in Argentina’s sky-high inflation, however unions say his cuts to public spending have induced layoffs and damage customers’ buying energy.
Rising unemployment shall be a spotlight of the strike, CGT secretary basic Hector Daer mentioned.
“One can’t be a mere spectator of the layoffs which can be going down,” Daer mentioned.
The strike would be the union’s third organized in protest of Milei’s administration. The umbrella union is traditionally recognized with the now-opposition Peronist motion.
“There’s nothing that warrants a strike,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni mentioned earlier on Thursday, including that union leaders are searching for to “hurt the federal government.”
(Reporting by Nicolas Misculin; Modifying by Kylie Madry)
