Workers want government to take more action against surging inflation .Argentina’s leading labor unions said on Wednesday they will hold a 24-hour national strike on April 10 to put pressure on the government to allow wage hikes in line with inflation running at among the highest in the world.The workers will demand that the government takes action to curb “a loss in purchasing power” as inflation increases, said Juan Carlos Schmid, head of a union representing dredging workers, in a televised press conference.“People are very angry,” he said at the event flanked by Hugo Moyano and Luis Barrionuevo, heads of two leading factions of the General Labor Confederation, the country’s largest labor umbrella group.
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