(6 May 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 06 May 2025
1. Bus drivers on strike arrive to block a major city artery
2. Protester shouting
3. Protesters blocking a bus from working
4. Protesters with flares, blocking an avenue
5. Protester with a flag that reads (Spanish) "Dignified salaries and pensions"
6. Angel Mauretti, bus mechanic, holds a placard that reads (Spanish) "Workers need a starting salary of 2.5 million ($2,500)"
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angel Mauretti, bus mechanic:
"We can’t make it to the end of the month. If you pay rent, medicine and what you have to consume is impossible. It’s impossible to get there. The cost of living went through the roof and the floor went down. That’s what’s happening. If we don’t enter the fight, this government won’t solve anything. Let’s hope that in the future they put their hands to their hearts and align salaries with the cost of living."
8. Protesters with Argentine flag playing drums
9. Bus driver holds a t-shirt with the writing (Spanish) "Pay 1.7 million pesos ($1,700) now"
10. Protesters blocking an avenue
11. Police vehicles blocking a road
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nestor Marcolini, bus line 60 union delegate:
"We need a salary adjustment discussed in labor negotiations of two million five hundred thousand pesos ($2,500). That is what we are demanding to have two million pesos in hand, just as the legislators raise their salaries every month, the workers need it too. We workers are not the (economic) adjustment variable."
13. Protestors waving an Argentine flag
14. Commuters waiting for one of the few bus lines running at a nearly empty bus station next to the Obelisk landmark
15. Various of commuters
16. Bus stops at "Obelisk north" station
17. Commuter
18. Person crossing the bus designated lane in front of the Obelisk
STORYLINE:
The drivers of about 300 bus lines operating in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires and other districts of the country held a strike on Tuesday demanding a wage increase to counter inflation.
The 24-hour strike was called by the Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA), the automotive transport workers’ union, amid a new wage dispute with business associations in the sector and after the mediation by President Javier Milei’s government to get the union to call off the strike failed the day before.
Protests by unions and vulnerable sectors such as retirees have intensified in recent weeks in Argentina.
Milei’s government since taking office a year and a half ago has implemented a strong austerity plan and liberalized rates for services that were frozen, described the strike as extortionate and argued that it is taking passengers "hostage."
It questioned that the union’s demand for a basic salary of 1.7 million pesos (about $1,400 dollars), which implies a 40% increase, far exceeds the official proposal.
The union leader demanded that the government modify the 1% cap on wage increases that it set in salary negotiations with various sectors.
As part of his austerity plan, Milei managed to lower inflation.
However, the rise in prices rebounded to 3.7% in March, the highest measurement in the last seven months, due to increased costs in education and food.
The consumer price index had marked 2.4% in February.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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