Labor unions in Argentina staged a nationwide strike on Tuesday to protest the declining value of the peso, one of the world’s highest inflation rates, and reduction measures ordered by President Mauricio Macri, including decreasing subsidies on utility rates, layoffs of state workers, new taxes on exports, and the elimination of several ministries. The strike grounded flights, crippled bus and train lines and closed the main agricultural port. Many hospitals provided only emergency services, garbage wasn’t picked up, and many stores and banks didn’t open. President Macri initiated market-friendly changes in 2015 that received praise from investors, but which have also caused labor unrest in a country with traditionally strong state benefits.
See "Argentina’s unions stage nationwide strike to protest crisis", Luis Andres Henao, The Associated Press, September 25, 2018