Argentina’s most influential trade union federation, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT by its Spanish acronym), announced a 24-hour general strike on April 10 to protest President Javier Milei’s austerity measures.

It will be the CGT’s third general strike since Milei took office in December 2023 The two previous protests saw services disrupted throughout the day as unions representing workers in public transport, airlines, gas stations, hospitals, hotels, banks, and public administration joined in.

CGT representatives had announced the protest last week, but confirmed the final date on Thursday.

“There is no conversation with the government – this strike will not be lifted”, Héctor Daer, one of the three CGT leaders, told the press after a meeting of the confederation’s board of directors

According to a communiqué, the CGT is going to protest due to the impact various economic sectors are experiencing after the government set a cap on paritarias, the regular salary negotiations between unions and employers overseen by the Labor Secretariat. The CGT will also protest due to the “drop in the purchasing power of active and retired workers, job losses, and the defunding of the solidarity health system,” among other issues.

The confederation also announced its members would participate in the annual march scheduled for March 24, celebrated to remember the victims of the country’s last military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983. They also will join the weekly retirees’ march on Wednesday, April 9, and march on International Workers Day on May 1.

On March 21, CGT representatives will meet with human rights organizations.

In January, CGT leaders met with Mother of Plaza de Mayo Taty Almeida and other representatives of Argentina’s human rights movement to show their support. “We have to be together and be there for each other,” Daer said. “We repeat our big call-out from last March 24, and you’ll find us in the streets with you.”