Tag: CGT

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's unions decided a 24-hour national strike on 29 May

  

  Argentina’s biggest labor union on Tuesday called for a 24-hour national strike to protest the government’s austerity policies, heaping pressure on President Mauricio Macri as he battles against a biting recession and jittery markets.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 05:12 UTC

  Argentina consumers’ 12-month inflation expectations reach 39.8%

  

  Argentine consumers’ inflation expectations for the next twelve months reached a record of 39.8% climbing for the third month running, according to the latest release from the University of Torcuato Di Tella.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:14 UTC

  To vote again for Cristina Fernandez would be a “masochist act” says Moyano

  

  Argentine CGT Labour Confederation head Hugo Moyano said on Wednesday that he would not vote again for President Cristina Fernández but nevertheless sent her a letter requesting she receives the new CGT board which the government does not recognize.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Argentine pro-government unions don’t trust Cristina’s stats and official inflation

  

  Despite having managed to split organized labour and declared war on its most powerful exponent the teamsters boss Hugo Moyano, the government of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez still has to deal with its unconvincing stats office and rampant inflation.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  Moyano says unions will have their own stats office to keep track of inflation

  

  Argentina’s organized labour CGT leader Hugo Moyano began on Monday his new term at the helm of the umbrella union organization and once again targeted the government of President Cristina Fernandez promising to set up his own Indec (stats office) to measure inflation.

• Friday, July 13th 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentine organized labour splits and pledges to challenge Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina’s CGT Central Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano, who on Thursday was re-elected for a third period during the umbrella organization’s congress warned that “we will have to rethink our vote in 2013 if the Government (of President Cristina Fernandez) does not give an answer to our claims.”

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez challenges organized labour determined to have Moyano sacked

  

  The Argentine powerful organized labour unions, CGT is heading for a fracture from the moment two different congresses have been convened at different dates, one of them supportive of President Cristina Fernandez’ administration and the other entirely in the opposition.

• Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 08:09 UTC

  Moyano accuses Cristina Fernandez of arrogance, extortion and keeping workers’ monies

  

  Argentina’s chief of the powerful CGT Labour Confederation Hugo Moyano blasted President Cristina Fernandez and her government during a massive rally Wednesday in the heart of Buenos Aires at the highly symbolic Plaza de Mayo.

• Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 07:56 UTC

  “Test of strengths” shows Moyano is capable of challenging Cristina Fernandez

  

  The two call for dialogue but at the same time argue they are victims of extortion so it is difficult to see reconciliation, rather as escalation of the confrontation between President Cristina Fernandez and organized labour chief Hugo Moyano, particularly following on Wednesday national strike and rally at Plaza de Mayo.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2012 - 08:14 UTC

  First organized labour national strike challenges President Cristina Fernandez

  

  For the first time in decades the powerful Argentine organized labour movement has confirmed it is going ahead with a much debated national strike against a Peronist government, which allegedly rests on support precisely from the unions and a long history of generous labour legislation.