The national government and the teaching unions did not reach an agreement this Tuesday in a meeting agreed to discuss the
joint agreement
, after a hectic start to classes with strikes throughout the country.
"The Government's proposal is a proposal far below the expectations of teachers
," said Sonia Alesso, general secretary of Ctera.
The discussion went to an intermission room for Tuesday the 12th at 11 in the morning.
"There is no possibility of discussing a salary proposal that has to do with the improvement of teacher salaries throughout the country
without discussing the amount of the Teacher Incentive Fund
and the recovery of the amounts that the Government did not transfer," remarked the owner. of the teaching union, which belongs to the CTA.
In this way, he made reference to the National Teacher Incentive Fund that the Milei administration confirmed in last week's meeting that it will eliminate to redirect those funds to policies linked to effective learning (such as the National Literacy Plan) and the school information system. .
Unlike last Tuesday, this time the Government did come with a specific salary offer, but it was "well below the expectations" of the unions.
The Secretary General of the Federal Council of Education, José Thomas, proposed within the framework of a majority consensus with the provinces that
the salary floor offer be 310,000 pesos
, which did not satisfy the teachers.
For its part, the Ministry of Education confirmed the financial resources allocated to the Compensation Fund and the National Evaluation and Information programs.
"It is
good news that the funds are beginning to be allocated
for the dining room and glass of milk, for school infrastructure and extended days and the compensatory fund," Alesso said in this regard.
But he clarified again: "The Fonid issue seems central to me. The Government has to come to the next meeting with a proposal that is much better than today's one, which is very low and has to guarantee the Fonid,
because without that there is no discussion in the provinces
."
CTERA considered the Government's offer for the national teaching parity to be insufficient.
CTERA Press Photo
According to the head of Ctera, the National Teacher Incentive Fund "is paid by 1,650,000 teachers; today that fund is 28,700 per position and up to two positions or its equivalent in teaching hours" and is a construction of the teachers' struggle in the historic white tent.
"Because when Menemism transferred the national schools to the provinces, it did so without financing and a long fight that the teaching organized in the Ctera gave was the white tent. There, after 1,003 days of fasting, a National Teacher Incentive Fund was obtained, that no government stopped paying for it," Alesso recalled.
"So it is absolutely irregular that the government does not pay it. And the other thing that cannot be explained is that the Government pays less. Legally there is no discussion, a teacher cannot earn less than last month. That is why we are fighting" , he remarked.
Finally, Alesso said that this Thursday they will be mobilizing Congress because they are "promoting a law, with 9 projects in Deputies by legislators from various benches where the sending of Fonid funds to the provinces is proposed."
"We are going to be there concentrating on an event, we are going to go through the legislators' offices to be able to advance on the issue of the law, I think there is no possibility of discussing salaries without that being completed, in addition to sending all the funds to the provinces", closed the general secretary of Ctera.