Over 100 unions and social organizations will march to the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation at midday on Wednesday to protest President Javier Milei’s austerity measures. As people descend to the ministry led by Federico Sturzenegger, it will be the first action from a newly created multi-sector front that aims to fight back against the government’s policies.

The Fighting Front for Sovereignty, Dignified Work and Fair Salaries was created in early June and has been gathering recruits, including powerful unions such as truck drivers’ Camioneros, the oil production workers federation, steelworkers’ UOM, bankers, and the State Workers Association (ATE, by its Spanish initials). Also present are other social organizations and some public universities.

“It makes us hopeful to think that we can all get together,” Daniel Yofra, head of the Oil and Cotton Ginning Workers, told the Herald. The federation is one of the leading groups within the new front. “There are three very clear mottos: sovereignty, work and salary. The working class has a lot of problems, but those are the three that groups most workers today.”

During an event with the press ahead of the march, he said that most........

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