NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1976[SANITIZED] - 1976/11/23

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03006883
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: November 23, 1976

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1976
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THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY
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Argentina
Pay Increases
The Argentine government is preparing
to announce wage increases in an effort to
reduce labor restiveness, which has
become serious in recent months.
Economy Minister Martinez de Hoz
earlier this month said the ruling military
junta would allow "selected" pay in-
creases by the end of the year. A general
wage hike of some 12 percent last
September has already been wiped out by
cost-of-living increases totaling nearly 20
percent in September and October.
President Videla late last week
reportedly approved a proposal that
would allow raises for "practically all"
private-sector unions. The increases are to
be retroactive to November 1.
In recent months, labor dissatisfaction
has resulted in several serious challenges
to the junta's ban on all strike activity.
Electric power workers recently staged a
series of strikes and slowdowns; port
workers have engaged in a slowdown in
recent weeks; and thousands of auto
workers walked off their jobs some
months ago.
Although the new pay boost will
provide short-term help for the junta's
problems with labor, it will hurt in
another respect. The granting of a wage
increase will be seen as a concession and
eventually will invite challenges from
labor and others who see the junta's posi-
tion as weakening.
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