Weekly Report - 16 February 2017 (WR-17-06)

ARGENTINA | Union protests. Argentina’s main trade union movement, Confederación General de Trabajadores (CGT), has called for a mobilisation against the government led by President Mauricio Macri on 7 March, and a general strike before the end of next month. The CGT accuses the business and industrial sector of failing to honour an agreement brokered by the labour ministry last November to avoid any lay-offs until this March. It blamed the government for failing to take the business and industrial sector to task.