CGT and transport unions will march alongside hooligans and 'retirees'

After years of complicity with the impoverishing model that plunged Argentina into inflation, poverty, and corruption, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the transport unions have decided to confront the Government of Javier Milei again.

Far from representing the interests of the workers, the union leadership seeks to protect a system that guaranteed them power and funds at the expense of the private sector's sacrifice.

In this context, the CGT will hold an expanded meeting this Tuesday at the UPCN headquarters, while the next day, the transport union confederations (CATT and UGATT) will join, along with the violent hooligans, in the "retirees' march" in front of Congress.

The fear of losing privileges

The discontent of the union leadership has an obvious cause: the advance of Milei's Government in the deregulation of the labor market and the elimination of the compulsory financing mechanisms of the union bureaucracy.

The Ley Bases and DNU 70 marked the first step in recovering a productive system free from the constraints imposed by decades of state dirigisme and union extortion. Now, Milei seeks to deepen that path, which has caused panic in the CGT.

Another blow to the unions' forced revenue model was the presidential decree that eliminated the obligation for companies to contribute money to employer chambers through collective labor agreements.

This step toward a more competitive and less intervened economy threatens to replicate in unionism, where millions of workers are forced to finance bureaucratic structures that don't represent them.

Additionally, the CGT opposes Milei's Government's decision to align wage negotiations with a scheme to reduce inflation.

The actions of the CGT do not respond to a genuine defense of labor rights but to a political strategy of the left and Kirchnerism to try to weaken the Government.

The unions have decided to rally behind the ultra-Kirchnerist governor Axel Kicillof, who seeks to position himself as the leader of Kirchnerism ahead of the 2027 presidential elections.

Aware that the mobilization could lead to acts of violence, Milei's Government will deploy a special security operation in the Congress area.

The National Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, warned the hooligans who joined the call: "We're going to find a special measure for the hooligans. We already have the right of admission, we'll find a special measure if they start going," she declared on LN+.