(30 Oct 2024)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 30 October 2024
1. Various of Aerolíneas Argentinas planes at airport
2. Various of empty airline counters
3. People walk by photos of Argentine soccer players, including Lionel Messi
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Brenda Alarcon, tourist:
"They had already canceled a flight for us, and now we woke up to the news that there was a strike. We decided to come early (to the airport) to see what was happening because we didn’t know. We already have to return to work, but we are still here."
5. Aerolíneas Argentinas plane
6. Empty airline counters
7. Various of a screen showing canceled flights
8. Tourists from Colombia
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María José Díaz García, Colombian tourist:
"We were going to stay a few days, and we were going to return to Colombia. But today, they canceled our flight, and the option they gave us was to leave on November 1st, when we had the flight to Calafate. That is to say, we lost all our reservations in Ushuaia today, tomorrow, and Friday."
10. Various of members of the truckers’ union prepare free food
11. Oscar Borda serves free food
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oscar Borda, member of the truckers’ union:
"It’s the transportation fight, and that’s what’s happening now because they want to privatize Aerolineas, our flag airline. No, we don’t want them to privatize it. Not that or anything. These things happened in the 90s, and they won’t return to that."
13. People waiting for free food
14. A person eating
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Grabois, leader of the Confederation of Popular Economy Workers:
"This is a classic third-world looting program. That is, they say they admire the first world, but they apply what the IMF (International Monetary Fund) imposes on Rwanda and Zimbabwe. That is, zero social rights, destruction of public education, public health, labor flexibility, job insecurity, and privatization of everything."
16. Various of trains at station
17. Station
18. An Argentine flag by closed shops
STORYLINE:
An alliance of Argentine unions carried out a strike on Wednesday that paralyzed passenger trains, commercial planes, freight ships, and cargo trucks in demand of salary increases and against the adjustment policies of President Javier Milei.
The 24-hour strike, led by the Buenos Aires metro unions and the union that brings together taxi drivers, was not supported by the urban bus drivers, who decided to paralyze their activities on Thursday.
The strike had high compliance, according to its leaders.
The strike is followed by sectors that, in the last year, have separately carried out similar measures amid the removal of state subsidies, the consequent increase in transportation rates, and the liquefaction of workers’ income due to inflation.
Although Milei has managed to calm the rise in prices, the accumulated inflation of 101.6% in the first nine months of the year has eaten into the pockets of Argentines, hitting their purchasing power and quality of life.
During the day, the two airports in Buenos Aires were almost empty.
Tens of thousands of Aerolíneas Argentinas users are affected by the strike of the Airline Pilots Association, one of the most combative unions that demands salary increases and opposes the national airline’s official privatization plans.
The transport unions have the support of university professors and state workers who have also paralyzed their activities in demand of better income and protest against the layoffs of thousands of employees and the deep cuts in budget allocations.
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