Argentina, workers launch nationwide 24-hour strike against pres. Milei's policies

Argentina's largest workers' unions have initiated a massive 24-hour strike, protesting against President Javier Milei's austerity measures. teleSUR

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00:00Argentina's labor unions began on Thursday a 24-hour general strike against the adjustment

00:04policies implemented by the government of Javier Millay.

00:07The strike promoted by the unions that make up the General Confederation of Labor constitutes

00:12a protest action against the budgets, cuts, and other starvation measures of the Millay

00:17administration.

00:18It responds to the social inequality resulting from the neoliberal policies of a government

00:23that ignores citizens' demands.

00:25As a prelude to the action unions and social organizations staged on Wednesday a massive

00:30demonstration in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires in support of the retirees

00:35who demand their rights every week.