During a meeting held this day, the Confederal Central Committee of that organization approved the call for these actions to reject the adjustment plan, the anti-protest protocol, a decree of need and urgency (DNU) from the president and a package of laws sent the day before to legislators.
In addition, he agreed to meet with other union centers, deputies and senators from all political forces.
The strike will begin at 11:00, local time, on the agreed day and will last 12 hours. Before this initiative, on January 10, a national plenary session of the regional delegations of the CGT will take place in this capital.
The DNU, announced by Milei on the 20th of this month, provides for the disarmament of more than 300 regulations, including rental, supply, land, industrial and commercial promotion laws.
He also approves the reform of the labor regime, modifies the Civil and Commercial Code, changes the regulatory framework for prepaid medicine and social works.
The day before, the President sent to Congress a package of regulations that establishes the economic, pension, security, defense, tariff, energy, health, administrative and social emergency until December 31, 2025.
The project, called Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines, is made up of more than 600 articles, grants legislative powers to the Executive Branch and indicates that it may extend the aforementioned term for two years.
In addition, it establishes the privatization of state companies and companies and their conversion into public limited companies.
Among these entities are Aerolíneas Argentinas, Water and Sanitation, the Bank of the Nation, the Mint, the Official Post Office, the Air Navigation Company, the Energy Company, Railways, Radio and Television, Télam and Fiscal Oil Fields.
Likewise, it eliminates primary, open, simultaneous and mandatory elections; and allows public administration contracts to be renegotiated or terminated for reasons of economic emergency and taking into account the availability of funds.
On the other hand, it indicates that “those who direct, organize or coordinate a meeting or demonstration that prevents, or hinders circulation of public or private transportation and causes injuries to people or damage to property will be punished with imprisonment of two to five years, whether they are present or not.”
It suspends the system to increase pension benefits every three months and considers those who act by virtue of due obedience not punishable, which, according to several analysts and politicians, can prevent the continuity of trials for crimes against humanity during the last civic or military dictatorship (1976-1983).
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