Buenos Aires (Reuters) – Argentina’s largest umbrella coalition, the powerful Federation of Labor Power (CGT), announced on Thursday that it will hold a 24-hour strike on April 10 to protest President Javier Milei’s economic austerity measures and reforms.
Milei oversees a sharp drop in Argentina’s high-altitude inflation, but the union said his cuts to public spending have led to layoffs and damaged consumer purchasing power.
CGT Secretary General Hector Daer said rising unemployment rates will be the focus of the strike.
“People can’t just be viewers who are laying off employees,” Dahl said.
The strike will be the third alliance organized in protest against the McLee administration. Historically, the Umbrella Alliance was considered an existing Peronist movement.
“There’s nothing to strike,” Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said earlier Thursday, adding that union leaders were seeking to “harm the government.”
(Reported by Nicolas Misculin; Editor of Kylie Madry)
