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State workers, some who have been laid off, protest against the dismissal of state employees, inside the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racism in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3, 2024
ARGENTINA’S government cut 15,000 state jobs on Wednesday, part of President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash public spending, the latest in a series of economic measures that have put the ultra-neoliberal government on a collision course with trade unions.
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced the job cuts in a news conference, portraying them as key to Mr Milei’s promised upheaval of Argentina’s public sector.
“It’s part of the work we are doing to reduce state expenses,” he told reporters, describing the dismissed workers as a drag on taxpayers.
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
