Wednesday, September 28, 2016 ATE strike raises stakesThousands of state workers, teachers and health workers marched through central Buenos Aires City yesteday during a nationwide strike organized by the ATE, CTERA and Conadu unions. We are the teachers that have been fighting since the 1980s,” said the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA) leader Sonia Alesso. He insisted that the ruling Let’s Change coalition was trying to champion the neoliberal economic policies of the 1990s by shrinking government agencies and mistreating the state workers. The leader of SUTEBA, the Buenos Aires province teachers union, Roberto Baradel, said the reason for the strike was primarily the loss of purchasing power that the workers’ salaries were suffering. Catalano added that inflation had eaten up 11 percent of workers’ salaries, making yesterday’s protest the only alternative.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 28, 2016 04:42 UTC