Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life • FRANCE 24

eerily empty streets deserted train stations and shuttered storefronts when Osiris was brought to a standstill on Thursday as labor unions called for a 24-hour strike to protest against austerity measures some 400 flights were cancelled while schools Banks and service stations remained closed and the capital’s public transportation was reduced to a trickle for some 3 million commuters residents there were left divided by the stke people have a right to complain but they’re also hurting everyone else many people want to go to work and obviously they can’t get there so they get a day’s pay deducted I think the strike is excessive the current situation of workers in Argentina in transportation and many of sectors is not ideal so I believe that a strong action was necessary it was the second strike in 5 months to protest against Javier M’s austerity program the Argentinian president campaigned on the pledge to reduce the country’s deficit to zero and since his election in November he’s overseen drastic cuts to public spending including by slashing crucial subsidies firing thousands of public servants and devaluating the peso by 50% melee insists his plan is working and has in recent months claimed some victory iies including Argentina’s first budget surplus in 16 years but critics say these have come at the cost of the working in middle class with inflation nearing 300% and more than half of the country’s population now living in poverty

Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Story by Laurent Berstecher.
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9 comments

  3. "crucial subsidies"? There is no such thing. And there is no such thing as a spending deficit, only bankruptcy. A state can spend what it taxes, no more.

  8. Have sense of peron atmosphere like the start to the fall then,
    Interesting economic study argentina is.
    Living in poverty percentages was already high before milei.😅

  9. This are lies. The strike was a total failure. Less than 30% of workers added to it. 90% of small business opened.

    Keep trying lefties

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