State Workers Protest April 5

[MilHojas]

Buenos Aires Strikes Again: State Workers Protest April 5 (Telesur)

Since December the administration of right-wing President Mauricio Macri has let go over 1,000 state employees, including hundreds of state radio workers following IMF austerity recommendations. The Buenos Aires province government announced yesterday it wants to force some 3,000 teachers into early retirement - those who are 60 years old or have taught for 30 years or more - and slash their annual retirement pension by 40 percent.

 

[julian63]

Can you please provide a source for the stats you report?
p.s. If the IMF recommended that Argentina cut back on government employees/pensions etc, presumably to qualify for financing, I would not be too quick to condemn that move.
p.p.s. One man's right wing is another's fiscal conservative. Right wing is a term that aims to trigger an emotional response especially when facts remain unexamined and one has an agenda.
p.p.p.s. Is Macri running the provincial government that you say is slashing teacher pension rights (and is that cutback prospective)?

 

[MatameBA]

FYI: Telesur is a Venezuelan-funded, pro-Maduro news source. The information may be correct. I don't know. I certainly don't doubt there's a protest (when isn't there one?). However, I'd take Telesur's "reporting" with a grain of salt.