Hundreds of thousands of workers in Argentina will hold a strike this week against libertarian President Javier Milei’s economic reforms, a union leader has said, accusing the government of “breaking the social contract” and reneging on deals with unions.
“We did not choose this path, but unfortunately they gave us no alternative,” Gerardo Martínez, leader of Argentina’s Construction Workers Union and a prominent figure in the country’s powerful General Federation of Labour (CGT), said in an interview ahead of the planned protest on Wednesday.
“There will be at least 200,000 marching [in Buenos Aires] and I believe the strike will be total.”