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Striking workers bring Buenos Aires to a standstill
STRIKING public-sector workers brought Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires to a standstill today in protest at IMF-ordered austerity measures, including redundancies, non-payment of wages and cuts to social programmes.
Teachers, who have been especially hard hit, walked out and planned to tie up 40 streets in the city centre to demand a 24 per cent pay rise.
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