Buenos Aires, Oct 18 (EFE) .- The General Labor Confederation (CGT), the largest labor union in Argentina, carried out a massive mobilization in Buenos Aires this Monday to advocate for the unity of Peronism and ask for more employment and production to overcome the economic crisis that drags the South American country.
The massive union march, called to commemorate the traditional “Peronist loyalty day”, closed with the reading of a document, in which the unions that make up the CGT, of Peronist roots, claimed the “flags of development, production and the work “of the justicialista movement founded by the three times Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974).
The labor union affirmed that its responsibility of “majority representation” of the workers summons the unions to the “defense of the national productive apparatus”, “the demand for economic policies that promote the generation of genuine employment” and “a just redistribution of labor wealth “, and the” reconstruction “of a state” present “and” regulator of the economy “.
The CGT called for “deepening social dialogue” to achieve consensus that will allow “putting productive employment at the center of public policies to overcome the situation that today marginalizes the most unprotected sectors, which deepens social inequalities and conditions uniform growth. and equitable of our country “.
“Argentina and our Government face a decisive instance to overcome the economic and social crisis inherited and dramatically aggravated by the effects of the pandemic,” said the CGT in its proclamation.
SIGNS BEFORE THE CRISIS
Severely affected by the covid-19 pandemic, Argentina’s economy collapsed 9.9% in 2020 and this year, despite the recovery in activity, severe social problems persist, with a poverty rate of 40.6% in the first semester.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell in the second quarter of the year to 9.6%, its lowest level since the end of 2019, but with high rates of informality and little creation of jobs in the formal sector.
Furthermore, the high inflation rate -52.5% year-on-year in September- undermines the purchasing power of wage earners.
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