Labor Crisis and Increase of Indigence in Argentina

Deputy Mónica Schlotthauer criticizes President Milei's statements about wages and poverty. She claims that indigence has increased to 18%.


Labor Crisis and Increase of Indigence in Argentina

In these regions, this experiment has already been conducted, and we even got to the point that we had contracts for one week, and there was no further work, on the contrary, factories are closing," she stated. She also rejected the assertion of Milei that the wage had risen, and stated that "we hear this since December, that wages have improved due to the halt of inflation." "They did not stop inflation, because we had more than 120%; for example, the kilogram of meat upon starting the job cost 4000 pesos, and now it’s almost 15,000, and not a single worker received an increase of 120 percent," she stated.

For the national deputy from the left party, the government "is trying to sell us broken glass, because when you go out on the street, you see more people crossing trash. The poverty level reaches 18 percent, and the number of people who can pay pensions is no longer increasing." "All of this (wage growth) is later not found in the figures, and all pensions and wages are below the poverty line, this is reality according to the consumer basket index," she concluded.

Deputy of the national parliament Monica Schlotthauer (Front of the Left) stated today that in her speech before the Legislative Assembly, President Javier Milei wants to "sell broken glass" and predicts that initiatives announced by the head of state will be blocked, into which she is involved. "We object to the fact that he came to announce that they are telling us that the agreement with the Ministry of Economy dissolves us, that is a lie, he wants to sell us broken glass," the deputy ironicized in a conversation with the Am Splendid 990 listeners.

According to Schlotthauer, Milei's speech in the subbotnik "is bigger than that of the very same" and, besides that, "confirms a series of lies, such as that the labor law reform will lead to the emergence of more jobs." "Since the 90s, they tell us that the less rights workers have, the more work they will give us entrepreneurs."