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  • 5/27/2025
Argentina's General Confederation of Labor (CGT) has filed a legal injunction against Decree 340/2025, which expands the definition of "essential services" to limit the right to strike. teleSUR
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00:00In Argentina, the General Labor Confederation filed a judicial appeal challenging the President Javier Millet's decree to limit the right to strike in the country.
00:08Central Labor Union filed a judicial appeal to declare as unconstitutional the government.
00:14The government's decree of necessity and urgency, which extends the list of services considered essential.
00:21The decree establishes that the essential services must provide a minimum service of 75%, while activities considered to be of transcendental importance must guarantee a minimum service of 50%.
00:35In this sense, the Union argued that the government's decree restricts the workers' right to strike and violates the International Pact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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