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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Seeking to avoid union discontent
Argentina’s influential but long-fragmented labour unions are becoming increasingly unhappy with the country’s economic situation and the lack of positive results from the economic policies pursued by the government led by President Mauricio Macri. The discontent is such that union leaders are increasingly united in their call for strike action to pressure the government to adopt contingency measures to help protect jobs and workers’ salaries as its ‘economic adjustment’ continues to stoke inflation and produce job losses. The government, which insists that the economic adjustment has reached its trough and will soon start to produce benefits, is trying to defuse the call for strike action by appealing for patience in full knowledge that conflict with the unions will do little to shore up the economy.
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