Argentina’s Senate has approved a sweeping new labor bill pushed by far-right President Javier Milei. The bill would curb the right to strike, allow companies to more easily fire people, and curtail severance payments. It comes as thousands of workers mobilized by trade unions gathered in central Buenos Aires, clashing with police on Wednesday. This is Mario Manrique with the auto industry workers’ union.

Mario Manrique: “What’s being presented as labor modernization is exactly the opposite. This labor reform that the government is proposing is a compilation of all the reforms they’ve tried to pass in Argentina. And the only thing they’re looking for is Argentina to become a cheap labor hub in the world, as unfortunately happens in other regions.”