Public workers in Argentina will wage a day-long nationwide strike on Feb. 24 in protest at widespread job cuts carried out by the new center-right government since it came to power in December, their union said, according to Reuters. President Mauricio Macri has dismissed thousands of state employees in his drive to tame a ballooning fiscal deficit, but the job losses are unpopular with many in a country used to generous state jobs and benefits. The Association of State Workers (ATE), the country's largest union of public employees, said hospital nurses and technicians, school caretakers, grains inspectors and government ministry employees were set to take part in the walkout. So too are unionized members of the National Civil Aviation Administration, raising the prospect of disruptions to flights.
