BEUNOS AIRES: Argentine maritime workers from the country’s maritime workers federation FESIMAF launched a 48-hour strike on Wednesday over a planned labor reform, which the country’s grain exporters’ chamber said was paralyzing shipments in the nation’s ports.
“This (48-hour strike) is clearly bringing agro-export activities to a complete standstill,” Gustavo Idigoras, the president of Argentina’s CIARA-CEC grain exporters and processors chamber told Reuters.
“We believe it is a purely political measure that is far removed from specific needs,” he added.
FESIMAF said the strike action, which comes a day before a planned nationwide walkout called by Argentina’s powerful CGT labor federation, aims to defend workers’ labor rights and job stability from the proposed far-reaching changes in labor law.
The strike is a protest against President Javier Milei’s planned labor reform bill, which has proposed to limit the right to strike, cap severance pay, tighten sick pay and limit workers’ ability to claim damages after dismissal.
