“The economy must be at the service of the person – and not the person at the service of the economy.” Pope Leo XIV has spent the week championing workers’ rights as global politics shifts rightward and AI threatens mass unemployment. “A trade union is an indisputable institution,” he told workers and business leaders at the Catholic University of Argentina on Monday. The country’s main trade union umbrella, the Confederación General del Trabajo, has called for four general strikes since Argentine president Javier Milei took office in February.

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