Union leaders meet Monday to finalize a 24-hour stoppage as Argentina’s lower house prepares to take up the bill.

Argentina’s main labor federation, the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), will hold an executive council meeting on Monday to formalize a call for a 24-hour general strike against the labor reform promoted by President Javier Milei, after the initiative cleared the Senate early Thursday.

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The virtual meeting is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time on a national holiday and was brought forward amid expectations that the bill could be debated by the Cámara de Diputados as soon as next week.

The government is seeking to secure lower-house approval before March 1, when Milei is set to open the 2026 ordinary legislative session. Congress is currently convened in extraordinary sessions.

Text Reads: The CGT has just announced a 48-hour total strike. Finally, they’re doing something. The Senate hastily passed a law that rolls back individual and collective labor rights, transferring resources from labor to capital.

The CGT is led by a triumvirate made up of Jorge Sola (insurance workers), Cristian Jerónimo (glassworkers), and Octavio Argüello (truck drivers). Union leaders had initially planned to meet on Wednesday to propose the strike.

In an internal document, the CGT said it opposed the labor reform bill “in its entirety,” arguing that it is “contrary to the National Constitution and international treaties with constitutional rank.” The federation also described the proposal as “harmful to workers and regressive.”

One of the most contested provisions is a last-minute amendment introduced by pro-government senators and allies that cuts wages during medical leave for illnesses or accidents not related to work.

According to the CGT, the reform would force workers to go through those periods with salary reductions of 50 percent or 75 percent, which “affects workers’ pockets at moments when they have additional expenses derived from their medical condition.”

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