In the latest pushback against President Javier Milei's labor reform—following CGT's December backlash and Plaza de Mayo march—union leaders met Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof to voice concerns over job losses from economic adjustment and criticize the bill as regressive. The national government dismissed the meeting's significance.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) convened with Governor Axel Kicillof and key cabinet members in Buenos Aires on Friday to assess the national economic adjustment's fallout and the proposed labor reform's scope. Leaders highlighted 'deep concern' over industrial decline, job losses, market deterioration, and productive weakening.
They labeled the reform 'regressive, flexibilizing, and precarizing,' arguing it erodes workers' historic rights amid crisis without solutions, while praising provincial defenses of jobs, production, and rights. The group called for collaboration with other provinces and reaffirmed commitments to congressional debates, judicial challenges, and mobilizations.
Attendees included Vice Governor Verónica Magario, Minister Carlos Bianco, Community Development Minister Andrés Larroque, and Chief Advisor Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez.
The national executive stated no internal alarm over CGT activities, ruling out summons, as union tensions persist over the Senate-bound bill.