02/18/2021 17:42
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/18/2021 6:56 PM
Shortly after the on-site classes began in the City of Buenos Aires and in some jurisdictions of the country, the five teacher unions with national representation met this Thursday with the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta, in the framework of the call for the Paritaria National Teacher.
This first meeting began at 5:00 p.m. in the Pizzurno Palace, headquarters of the educational portfolio and ended after 6:00 p.m.
Upon leaving, the national official said that the teacher unions
raised a 30 percent salary increase
: "We are going to build a consensus with all jurisdictions,
so that there is a proposal according to the needs of our teachers
," he said.
And he added: "Our objective is that the wage situation can be recovered.
Our commitment is that the minimum wage beats inflation
."
Asked how the dialogue will continue, Trotta said that "now a negotiation process is coming" and added that
the next meeting will be next week.
"The parity space is a space for understanding what the demand of the teaching sector may be, to whom we recognize the commitment in the framework of the pandemic," he said.
The meeting, which was held under a
mixed modality
(face-to-face and by zoom), was attended by leaders of the
CTERA
, the Argentine Union of Private Teachers (
Sadop
), the Argentine Confederation of Education (
CEA
), the Union of Argentine Teachers (
UDA).
) and the Association of Teaching of Technical Education (
AMET
).
The referents of the five unions held several
informal meetings with Minister Trotta
in recent days
and on Wednesday the official said in radio statements that
"there is no ceiling" foreseen in the negotiation from the point of view of the authorities.
On the part of the unions, the leader Fabián Felman (CEA) had advanced that they are going to request "a salary increase
that exceeds inflationary figures
", in line with the Government's position in its call to unionists and businessmen to discuss prices and wages.
The unionist was cautious with this first "evaluation meeting" and.
aligned with the official discourse, he argued that "it is not possible to define parities in one day, except that the Government offers an insurmountable proposal."
With criticism of the previous government, he affirmed that this possibility "is really difficult as a result of
the macrista pandemic
that the country endured and suffered, which caused high inflation rates for years and the absence of parity between 2017 and 2019."
Alberto Fernández received trade unionists Roberto Baradel, Sonia Alesso and Hugo Yaski at Casa Rosada.
Presidency photo.
Prior to the meeting with Trotta, some teachers' unionists met with Alberto Fernández at Casa Rosada.
It is about Roberto Baradel, from Suteba, and
Sonia Alesso
, from CTERA, who visited the President together with the secretary general of the CTA, Hugo Yasky.
With information from Télam.
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