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.
