Argentina teachers strike for the eight day as President Mauricio Macri continues to lend a deaf ear to protesters' pleas. Teachers are demanding wage reforms and improvements under the Macri government but as of today, there are no reports of pay hikes to keep with inflation which has reached 40 percent in 2016. And aside from teachers, laborers and health care workers join in also asking better wages and better job conditions in the city and nearby provinces.

Argentina teachers protesters are now in the thousands with teachers from different provinces and cities in Argentina joining in, Telesur reported. The massive protest has closed down schools, caused heavy traffic and has affected commercial and business establishments in Buenos Aires and nearby areas. Protest leaders vow to continue demonstrations till Thursday after a huge protest was done in La Plata.

Argentina teachers are now joined by social movement groups and health care workers as they push for reforms for eight days now. The protests started during the first week of March and continued as a multi-day teacher's national strike. Head of the Union of Education Workers or SUTEBA, Roberto Baradel said that the dignity of workers are not for sale and said that they have no intention to destabilize anyone and they are not afraid of protesting on the streets. "They can't break us," he said.

The Argentina teachers' strike is demanding for pay increases for teachers to keep up with inflation, Press TV reported. What's worse is that more children are forced to study in public schools since there is an increasing inequality among families that can send their children to public schools and those that have no choice. The teachers were told to go back to work Thursday however, they threatened more strikes unless reforms are met.

President Mauricio Macri recently compared the Argentina teachers strike to Hiroshima. He posted a photo of a war-ravaged classroom in Hiroshima where young students continue to take classes with a teacher in front of the class. He said that for a nation to rise, schools must not stop. He overlooked why the educators started protests in the first place and simply ordered them to go back to work. Aside from teachers' strikes, the largest labor union in Argentina also called a strike on April 6.

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