CGT, Argentina's top labour federation, plans general strike against Milei government

Argentina’s largest labour federation, the CGT umbrella union group, will this week call for a general strike on Tuesday, April 8, in a fresh challenge to President Javier Milei's government.

Details of the walkout will be finalised at a meeting of the labour federation's board this Thursday. It remains unclear if the strike will include a mobilisation of workers to Congress or the Casa Rosada.

Leaders from the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), historically aligned with Peronism, have been fiercely critical of Milei and his austerity measures. Next month's walkout will be the first CGT strike of 2025 and the third since the President took office in December 2023.

Thursday's meeting will see discussions over a plan of “action and measures in repudiation of the pressure,” said Héctor Daer, one of the CGT's top leaders, in an interview with the TN news channel.

“We are going to be respectful of the fact that on Thursday, we will have a meeting of the CGT's board of directors, but what all of us who are here have agreed on, and we are going to build it together, is a 24-hour strike before April 10,” said the labour leader.

– TIMES/NA