His family settled in seaside Mar del Plata early in his childhood and he entered the labour force in his teens as an employee of Expresos y Mudanzas, a local moving company.

[5] After these policies' collapse in 1981 and the loss of the Falklands War the following year, a general election was called for 1983, before which Moyano was named head of the Mar del Plata chapter of the late Juan Perón's Justicialist Party.

[9] The Teamsters' Union helped lead a series of general strikes in 1996, though under the banner of the "Argentine Workers' Movement" (MTA) — a dissenting, intransigent faction within the CGT.

Benefiting from a close alliance with the administrations of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, Moyano leveraged his role as head of the Council on Salaries (an officially sanctioned advisory board) to secure a stronger collective bargaining position and frequent increases in the minimum wage, while opposing restrictive economic policy proposals.

[12] Amid the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector over a planned rise in export taxes, Moyano proposed the creation of a "CGT-TV" and a related radio station.

[14] The Teamsters' Union, by then headed by the CGT leader's son Pablo Moyano, staged a blockade of Buenos Aires distribution plants operated by Clarín and La Nación, the nation's two leading newspapers, on November 6, 2009.

[16] The ambassador of Switzerland to Argentina, Johannes Matyassy, clarified that the Swiss investigation was limited to Ricardo Depresbiteris, proprietor of the Covelia waste transport company, and that no files pertaining to the Moyanos had been requested.

[6] His support for President Cristina Kirchner dimmed during her reelection campaign, when she refused Moyano's demands to have more CGT officials included in the Front for Victory party list for Congress.

[20] Moyano's alliance with the Kirchner administration effectively ended with a series of strikes called by the Trucking Workers' Union (led by his son, Pablo) during June 2012.

[21] The administration's decision to file legal charges and levy fines against the Truckers' Union for failing to abide by labour dispute mediation requirements,[22] was followed by Moyano's own call for a 10-hour general strike on June 27.