Trade unions and social organizations will protest against Milei’s reforms this Wednesday

Trade unions and social organizations will demonstrate in the streets of Buenos Aires this Wednesday to express their rejection of the reforms announced by the government. new Argentine government led by the ultra-liberal economist Javier Mileimost of which will be voted on in the National Congress in the coming weeks.

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), of Peronist inspiration and the country’s main trade union, has organized a march this Wednesday at noon in which it will demand the withdrawal of the emergency decision (DNU) with which the Milei wants to reform the basis of the country’s economy.

This decree contains more than 300 reforms that, according to the executive branch, are designed to “give freedom and autonomy back to individuals, get the state off their backs” and furthermore “dismantle the enormous amount of regulations that have prevented, hindered economic growth and stopped.” from the country.

Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said yesterday that the government will not renew about 5,000 government contracts next year and will review more than a million social plans to detect irregularities.

The mobilization will be joined by social organizations that on December 20 organized the first protest against the liberalizing policies that the new executive calls the basis for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy.

On that occasion, the workers’ organizations preferred to remain on the sidelines. But in the evening, President Milei announced the contents of the urgently needed decree on national radio and television. Then the CGT changed its mind and announced the start of union protests, including the filing of an appeal to the courts to declare the DNU invalid.

In addition to the challenge of getting the necessary votes in parliament, Milei and his cabinet are faced with a series of lawsuits against the urgent necessity decree.