Milei is increasingly confused. He believes that because he took 15% of the real votes in Buenos Aires elections, he can move on historical conquests.
What happened? This Wednesday took a decree (340/2025), which refers to the Merchant Marine regime, which takes the opportunity to “put the window” a series of restrictions on the right to strike.
At the end of the Decree, it modifies Law 25,877, which refers to the labor regime and trade union organizations, to expand the list of “essential services or activities of transcendental importance” that should have a “minimum provision” in case of strike, which also raises 75%. A ridicule that in fact tries to prohibit the right to strike.
The list of activities is endless, and is copied from the 70/23 DNU that is suspended by justice because it is an antiobrero legal mamarracho.
The list includes health services, telecommunications services, aeronautics, cargo and people transport, food industry, etc, etc., etc.
No worker may have, if this is imposed, the right to make a force measure.
The decree has already begun to be repudiated by lawyers, human rights and unions. As the head of the Association of Labor Lawyers of Latin America, Matías Cremonte, “the Argentine legislation, until this illegal modification, following the ILO, only considered the services whose interruption can jeopardize the life, health or security of the population. It has a concrete purpose, which is not prohibiting the strike”. And he clarifies that “so absurd is that in an subsection it includes” the interruption or suspension of production can … affect collection goals associated with fiscal equilibrium policies. “It is clear that it does not try to protect the life of the population or the exercise of a right.”
In Creole, a company throws 200 workers but its guild could not strike among other things because the government would lose collection to pay fraudulent debt to the IMF.
Decree 340/25 was published today through which the Government returns to the burden against the right to strike. Just as in the declared unconstitutional DNU 70/23, in such a way the essential services that practically prohibit strikes 1/7👇
– Matías Cremonte (@matias_cremonte) May 21, 2025
An attempt to avoid resistance to delivery and adjustment
The original decree points to the deregulation of the merchant marine. The measure had been criticized by different guilds because it affects the sovereignty and working conditions of thousands of maritime workers. Even business sectors opposed, because it implies a delivery to multinational shipping companies.
That is why Milei included the attack on the right to strike.
The same is still searching in the rest of the activities. He knows that his privatization projects of service companies, their attacks on health and education, its advanced airlines or the salary roof that wants to apply to drivers and the entire working class, generates resistance. And the strike is the oldest and most powerful tool in the working class. A tool that enforced the facts, where he conquered his legitimacy, but then gained legality in the Constitution, labor standards and international agreements.
Milei’s is a legal mamarracho, but has its coherence. The right will continue trying to impose that rule, whether by decrees, laws or even threats as we have seen in the general strikes.
That is why you have to reject it. And not only in court. The CGT and CTA plants, as well as the unions that integrate them, have to pronounce and declare themselves on alert. It is one more reason to leave the truce and summon assemblies that discuss a struggle plan to defeat Milei and its slavery plan.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
