NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 1979[SANITIZED] - 1979/11/30

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627704
• 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 30, 1979

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ARGENTINA: Move Against Labor
The Argentine military government has taken a major step in
its national reorganization plan with the recent announcement of a
new law to regulate trade union activities.
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The law is an ambitious attempt to break the politi-
cal and economic power of organized labor--the backbone
of Peronism. In its broad omtlines, the law prohibits
all political activities by the unions, removes from
trade union control the administration of social welfare
services--the source of labor's vast economic power--and
dissolves the General 'Confederation of Labor, the Peronist-
dominated national labor confederation. The procedural
details of the decree will not be announced for another
four months, and the new statute is not expected to take
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Reaction in trade union circles was immediate and
negative. The United Leadership of Argentine Workers, a
government-sponsored successor to the Peronist confedera-
tion, rejected the edict and said its member unions would
refuse to implement it. Labor's opposition to the law,
for the present at least, will not include general strikes
because the new organization is too weak and faction-
ridden to carry them out. Instead, it will employ appeals
to the international labor organizations, extensive court
tests, and attempts to rally support from the domestic
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The government seems determined to implement the
new law, which it deems essential in effecting the sweep-
ing political, social, and economic changes necessary to
overcome the recurrent cycle of ineffectual and corrupt
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Labor's traditional strength in Argentine political
institutions, however, will be difficult to break. The
military may be forced to relent on some of the law's
harsher provisions in order to secure labor support when
it implemen s the retur7 to civilian rule some time in the
mid-1980s.
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