An report conducted during the second week of November found that 6 out of 10 Argentines agree with the labor reform promoted by President Javier Milei from the National Government, which is set to be debated in Congress soon. The report, published by the Explanans consultancy and accessed by the Argentine News Agency, is based on interviews with 6,145 people from the country's 25 most populous urban conglomerates (91 cities in 21 provinces and the City of Buenos Aires). It emerges in a context where many citizens are questioning whether such radical modifications should be made to the current Argentine labor system. "A 43.1% fully adhere to Milei's proposal, while 18.7% demand a different reform. At the other extreme, nearly 30% flatly reject it. As with other topics, these positions are reconfigured according to age and gender: among young people aged 18 to 30, 63.2% of men support Milei's reform compared to 40.6% of women, a gap that widens even more when comparing young men with women over 50," the report states. If the focus is on the 43.1% segment and the types of people who "fully" support the labor reform are broken down, "very defined" characteristics can be seen: All of them evaluate the National Government's management very highly and consider themselves to be better off than before; on the other hand, they express the desire for provincial governors to "unambiguously accompany the Executive" and point out that trade unions have "a very negative image." Conversely, among those who want a different reform than the one proposed by Milei (18.7%), "criticism of the President predominates" and they claim to be going through an "economic deterioration"; regarding the actions of provincial leaders, they maintain that they should assume a role "in defense" of their districts and do so "in a federal key." Furthermore, trade unions "are going through a critical moment" because only 15% of the population "values them positively," a result that apparently does not reach the country's union leaders. To conclude, they also consulted about cooperatives and mutual societies, which, according to the consultancy, "preserve a more robust symbolic capital than the union one" because they accumulate a 37.3% positive image "although they also have a 31.1% rate of ignorance." "They are sectors that, although they fly under the radar of the massive public agenda, remain well-positioned. Especially considering that their positive perception grows as their knowledge increases, which is still relatively low," they concluded.
