24-02-2016 06:05 via news.yahoo.com

Argentina's new president faces strike, discontent as prices leap

By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In power just two months, Argentina's President Mauricio Macri is already facing labor unrest, with a national public sector strike planned for Wednesday as workers protest rocketing inflation and job cuts. Unions representing hospital staffers and government office workers, among other public sector employees, are staging a one-day walkout across the country. It is the first such strike that Macri, Argentina's first non-Peronist president in m
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