This Friday the uncertainty continued due to the start of classes, scheduled in several provinces for Monday.
It is because the Confederation of Education Workers (CTERA) announced a 24-hour national teaching strike.
It is not yet clear what impact it will have.
The national government had called the five teaching unions to an
official meeting
, on Tuesday at 6 p.m., at the Ministry of Labor, to discuss updating the minimum wage.
A day after classes began in several jurisdictions across the country.
"The call for the meeting has been intentionally delayed. Everyone knew when the school year began," said Sonia Alesso, general secretary.
On Monday there will be mobilizations in all the provinces and on Tuesday the 27th, he noted, they will appear at the hearing called by the Government.
One of the key points of the claims is to continue with the transfers from the
Teacher Incentive Fund
(FONID) and the Salary Inequalities Compensation Fund, stopped by Milei, and national educational programs.
Meanwhile, the head of the City Government, Jorge Macri, announced that in that jurisdiction there will not be a strong support for the strike and said that teachers who do not show up for work on Monday will
not be paid for the day
throughout the Buenos Aires territory.
“Of the 17 unions in the City, only one says that it is going to join the strike, so there should be no problems at the beginning of the school year,” said Macri.
“As an illegal strike is, we are going to deduct the working day for those who join;
He who does not go to work does not get paid, it is a strike that is illegal,” he remarked.
And he said he did not understand the decision: "They have said that they would join the strike
in support of the rest of the country
, it is ridiculous, the work is here, it is paid here and the kids are here."
Clara Muzzio, the deputy head of the Government of Buenos Aires, assured that the doors of the schools will be open to receive the students.
“Salary discussions should take place with the kids in the classrooms.
We cannot allow their right to education to be violated in the midst of an educational emergency.
In Argentina, 5 out of 10 third graders do not understand the texts they read,” she said.
In other provinces
In Mendoza, the Sute teaching union decided that the protest modality on Monday, when the primary school year begins, will be a mobilization, but there will be no strike.
In that province they have just agreed to the joint agreement and, if there was a cessation of tasks, the day would also be deducted, as in the City of Buenos Aires.
The protest will consist of a
rally on the corner
of Avenida San Martín and Peatonal, in the City of Mendoza, at 6:30 p.m.
From there, they will march to the provincial Legislature.
Three reasons explain this decision of the state teachers union.
The Mendoza
government
guaranteed the funds that the Nation decided to suspend, and the teaching partnership closed with acceptance of a 15% salary increase for February;
15%, for March, and a bonus of 90 thousand pesos.
But it also weighs on the pocket: teachers who go on strike are deducted for the day and the
classroom item
, which has been in effect since 2016 and is a plus for presence in the classroom, which represents 10% of the salary.
The situation in
Córdoba
is imprecise.
The thing is that the teacher parity is underway in that province.
On Tuesday, the Government presented them with a new proposal and the bases are analyzing it.
On Tuesday the departmental delegates will have a resolution assembly and on Wednesday, in a general assembly, they will vote whether to accept it or not.
If they reject it, eventually, there could be a strike in the province.
The UEPC adheres to the measure of force but Sadop does not.
"It is a national strike voted in the Ctera congress and our union adheres," said the public school teachers union.
Meanwhile, private schools will begin the 2024 school year
The deputy secretary of ADIUC, Leticia Medina, said that university teachers will be part of the force measure.
In
Santa Fe
everything indicates that the measure of force will have a greater impact: there the teachers will carry out a
48-hour strike
.
Amsafé and Sadop demand salary improvements after rejecting the provincial government's proposal.
And if negotiations do not advance, they could hold another 48-hour strike the following week.
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