News of sex workers

Government intervenes to avert strike in health-worker pay dispute

02-07-2021 14:30 Labour Ministry bans healthcare workers from staging two days of walkouts, ordering 15 days of talks between unions and companies from sector to resolve pay dispute.

Argentina’s Senate approves transgender job quota law

28-06-2021 16:11 Senate backs sweeping legislation that reserves one percent of all public sector jobs for members of the trans community.

Ex-prostitute, 'Jesus' actor line up for Peru Congress race

07-04-2021 12:33 Meet some of the candidates in Peru's Congressional elections, including an ex-prostitute campaigning for sex workers rights, a Jesus impersonator, a transgender congresswoman and an anime fanatic.

Wages continue to lose out to inflation, pushing poverty up

03-04-2021 08:43 Salaries rose 29.6% in 12 months up until February, while prices rose 38.5 percent over the same period.

Argentina better prepared for Covid-19 second wave, says official

06-02-2021 08:32 Health Minister Ginés González García says Argentina has signed contracts for the provision for 62 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines – but provides little information on delivery dates.

Argentina begins administering second Sputnik V doses

19-01-2021 22:43 The government began administering second doses of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine Tuesday after receiving another shipment of 300,000 shots at the weekend.

Argentina's Army must comply with 1% quota for trans individuals

24-11-2020 09:10 Argentina's Army has been included on a list of official bodies that must comply with new legislation guaranteeing the incorporation of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people into the workplace, according to press reports.

Billionaire-backed Argentine fintech Ualá launches in Mexico

29-09-2020 15:30 Ualá, the mobile payments startup backed by heavyweight billionaire investors George Soros and Steve Cohen, expands beyond Argentina into Mexico.

Precarious workers struggle to get by on delivery jobs, state aid

21-08-2020 02:05 Many informal workers, who found themselves unemployed overnight when the pandemic hit, are scraping by on state support packages or low-paid delivery jobs.

President extends Covid-19 lockdown ‘on same terms’ despite surge in cases

01-08-2020 08:47 ‘Cuarentena sin cambios’ – Lockdown in Buenos Aires metropolitan area extended until August 16, after week of record numbers of cases and fatalities.

May 2nd-May 9th: What we learned this week

09-05-2020 08:15 Key stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Celebrating May Day in the midst of a pandemic

01-05-2020 19:13 Across the globe workers celebrate, strike and demonstrate for International Workers' Day. In Argentina, essential employees are praised by the government while demonstrations take place during a lockdown.

14% of those infected with Covid-19 in Argentina are healthcare professionals

17-04-2020 11:59 Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti reveals 374 health workers have been infected with the novel coronavirus, with three fatalities among them.

‘We want to come home,' say 2,200 Argentines stranded in Andorra

16-04-2020 15:39 Some 2,200 Argentines stranded in Andorra by the coronavirus, most of them temporary workers in ski resorts on the verge of running out of money, are demanding on social networks and the media that the government facilitate their return to the country.

Fernández asks workers not to make ‘excessive demands’ in wage talks

03-01-2020 06:00 “I want to ask those who work to take the situation into account and not make undue demands because that impacts economic results,” said the president in an interview with Radio 10.

Two Venezuelan union leaders detained and deported from Ezeiza airport

02-12-2019 16:07 Wills Rangel and Jacobo Torres were travelling to Buenos Aires for a global meeting of labour union leaders. However, they were reportedly forbidden from entering Argentina, detained on a plane and sent back to Venezuela.

No end in sight to Chubut’s debt crisis as workers pay price

12-10-2019 11:23 Driven by crushing provincial debt and economic mismanagement, public workers in Chubut are on strike as they face the second so-called “staggered pay” situation in two years.

by Lucas Robinson

Students take over schools in Chubut amid crippling debt crisis

12-10-2019 09:56 Three months into a teachers strike over unpaid salaries and the shocking condition of public schools in the oil-rich province, students have had enough.

by Lucas Robinson