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Weekly Report - 25 January 2024 (WR-24-03)

ARGENTINA: Milei shrugs off general strike

Neither the Argentine government nor the opposition delivered any knockout blows during a 12-hour general strike held on 24 January. The strike was held only 45 days after President Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian, took office, setting a new record for rapid deterioration in industrial relations. Milei’s immediate predecessor, Alberto Fernández (2019-2023), who led a Peronist government, got through his entire four-year term without a single general strike. Now, however, the also Peronist-dominated Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) trade union movement is promising an epic struggle against Milei’s sweeping plans to deregulate the economy, consisting of hundreds of measures in a presidential decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) and in an omnibus bill currently being discussed in congress. 

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