Report: 40,000 Argentinian Workers Lose Their Jobs Under Macri
Report: 40,000 Argentinian Workers Lose Their Jobs Under Macri
Published 3 February 2016
The union argued the layoffs are part of a strategy meant to weaken the labor movements who are negotiating an adjustment to their wages.
One of Argentina's top two labor unions issued a report Tuesday saying that at least 40,000 workers in the public and private sectors were fired or not recommissioned since December, when the new administration of right-wing President Mauricio Macri took office.
About 19,000 employees laid off were in the public sector and 22,500 in the private, of which almost half worked in construction sector, the Argentina Workers Union or CTA reported.
The statement by CTA noted that their statistics were not final nor accurate, as some of dismissals they included in the report have been overturned in court.
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