Aviation industry union leaders in Argentina have vowed to oppose Presidentelect Javier Milei’s plans Privatization of the national airline Aerolíneas ArgentinasThis points to a turbulent relationship between the future president and the country’s labor movement. The information comes from the Financial Times (FT) newspaper.
After winning the second presidential round on Sunday (19), Milei announced that she planned to do so privatize several stateowned companies and, in the case of Aerolíneas Argentinas, handing over company shares to its workers, in addition to cutting the state funding on which it relies.
“If he wants to take over Aerolíneas, he will have to kill us,” said Pablo Biró, head of the Argentine pilots’ union, Wednesday (22). “And when I say kill, I mean it literally: he has to take the bodies with him, and I will be the first,” said the union leader.
Expected demonstrations
Social movement Unidad Piquetera is planning demonstrations in central Buenos Aires to oppose Milei’s austerity plans, while its leaders will meet to coordinate a “battle plan” for the coming months. Milei, on the other hand, promises to face resistance and suppress protests that are deemed “outside the law.”