In a statement signed by its General Secretary Omar Maturano, the organization specified that the riot will take place on February 21st from 00:00 to 24:00, local time.

“We have decided to exercise the right to strike in response to the lack of a parity discussion (negotiations between workers and employers to achieve pay raises and improvements in working conditions) and of an adequate wage proposal in the face of a galloping inflation that deteriorates wages, the text referred.

In addition, it indicates that the current situation causes irreparable damage to the contracted personnel.

Meanwhile, the text indicates that the measure will be pursued “within the explicit recognition of the Argentine constitutional law because, as General Peron (Juan Domingo, former president) used to say, within the law, everything; outside the law, nothing.”

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Census, the general level of the Consumer Price Index in this nation ramped up increased up 20.6% in January and the inter-annual growth was 254.2%.

On Friday, the leader of the General Confederation of Labor, Hector Daer, accused the Executive and the employers of making the negotiations of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage Council fail, and assured that the organization will take the necessary measures.

They are willing to achieve a collective impoverishment. With those policies, the scenario will become unsustainable for the people. The Government must reflect, he said.

During the last few days, there were important upturns in the costs of public transportation, food, electricity, medicines and school supplies, among others.

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