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Montevideo, May 30th 2025 - 05:49 UTC

Tag: strike

  • Friday, April 11th 2025 - 10:17 UTC

    Argentina: CGT leader says Thursday's strike “a success”

    “There cannot be an Argentina with free prices and stepped on wages,” Daer stressed

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) leaders said Thursday's nationwide strike was a “resounding success.” It was the third such measure against President Javier Milei. CGT Joint Secretary-General Héctor Daer underscored how the Libertarian administration's “chainsaw” policies were causing a drop in people's income. In Daer's view, the Government's adjustments impact mostly retirees and vulnerable groups.

  • Friday, March 21st 2025 - 09:33 UTC

    Argentina's main labor union announces nationwide strike for April 10

    The CGT will also march before Congress the day before alongside retirees seeking pension updates to cope with inflation

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) announced on Thursday a nationwide strike against the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei, which will be staged on April 10, following a demonstration the previous day. It will be the third such measure against the current administration after stoppages on Jan. 24 and May 9, 2024.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Business as usual in Argentina as bus strike is lifted

    UTA leader Roberto Fernández took heavy flak for not staging the drivers' strike on Wednesday, together with the other groups

    It will be business as usual for Argentines on Thursday after the bus drivers' Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA) lifted the strike following an understanding with the Labor Ministry and the companies represented by the Asociación Argentina de Empresarios del Transporte Automotor.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Argentine workers carry out major strike

    These strikes are “harming those who want to work,” Adorni argued

    Argentina's leading public workers labor union Association of State Workers (ATE) launched at noon Tuesday a 36-hour strike to protest against the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei's recent layoffs and spending cutbacks, in addition to demanding wage adjustments to cope with inflation. The measure is also fueled by a 24-hour stoppage affecting air, railroad, and underground services.

  • Thursday, February 29th 2024 - 11:23 UTC

    Air industry workers' strike leaves thousands stranded in Argentina

    It was an irresponsible thing to do, Adorni said

    Thousands of air travelers were stranded Wednesday as workers of the Argentine airline industry went on strike for 24 hours in rejection of a 12% wage increase that in no way matches the country's rampant inflation.

  • Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

    Argentine unions call for nationwide strike on Jan. 24

    Milei seeks to suppress Congress, Palazzo and Daer concurred

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) Thursday called for a nationwide strike next Jan. 24 to protest against President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) deregulating most aspects of the South American country's economy in addition to the bill sent Wednesday to Congress to deepen those reforms.

  • Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:37 UTC

    No general strike yet against Milei's decree, labor leaders announce

    “We have to demand that the decree be rolled back,” said CGT leader Héctor Daer

    Argentina's General Labor Confederation (CGT) announced a demonstration to be staged next Wednesday before the main Courthouse in Buenos Aires to protest against President Javier Milei's reforms through an emergency decree earlier this week.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

    Brazilian airline pilots' strike over

    The airline workers voted virtually between 6 am Saturday and noon Sunday to accept the offer and return to their posts

    Brazil's National Union of Aeronauts (SNA) Sunday agreed by 70.11% of the 5,834 votes to accept the airlines' offer and lift the two-hour daily strike that had been going on for about a week, but which had been lifted temporarily for Christmas weekend and was to resume Monday. Meanwhile, 28.8% of the SNA members rejected the proposal and abstentions reached 1.09%.

  • Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:21 UTC

    No progress in Brazilian airline workers' strike

    The workers did not find Thursday's meeting between union leaders and the Superior Labor Court (TST) in Brasilia satisfactory

    Brazil's National Union of Aeronauts (SNA) workers Thursday voted against a new proposal and thus their strike went into its fifth consecutive day, affecting airline operations at the country's largest air terminals.

  • Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

    Airline workers' strike: Delays reported in Brasilia, Porto Alegre, and Fortaleza

    Most inconveniences involved flights bound for or stemming from São Paulo

    After the daily strike between 6 am and 8 am called for by Brazil's National Union of Aeronauts (SNA), 25 delays (14 takeoffs and 11 landings) were reported Monday at Brasilia's Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport.

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