All provinces submitted
a note to the Government
to claim the funds for the teaching incentive and the connectivity component that has been paid since the coronavirus pandemic.
In the midst of this tension, the governor of
Santa Cruz
,
Claudio Vidal
, went out to
paint classrooms in his province
and asked parents to join in.
During the long weekend and two weeks before the start of classes in the Patagonian province - in some towns like El Chaltén they have already started -, Vidal, from a union career prior to his electoral victory, showed himself with a
roller in hand
inside the Santa Cruz classrooms.
"Weekend and we continue
with the renovations
of one of the
19 educational establishments
that we are preparing so that our children can have classes," said Vidal.
The president of the south also launched a curious call:
"We invite parents
and the community in general to join and thus be able
to move forward more quickly
...".
Vidal's action occurs while the president of the Provincial Council of Education of Santa Cruz (the Minister of Education),
Daniel Busquet
, joined his provincial peers in the area to express to the Secretary of Education of the Nation,
Carlos Torrendell
, the concern about the
lack of transfer to the provinces
of funds to supplement the payment of salaries, and which is popularly known as a teacher incentive.
A week ago, Governor
Vidal opened salary negotiations with the unions
in which the provincial government told the union members that it would carry out labor measures that the teachers had been demanding.
For this reason, beyond the fact that they
did not reach a numerical agreement
, the workers' representatives left the first meeting satisfied.
In the midst of the demand for the teaching incentive from the Government, the governor of Santa Cruz went out to paint schools in his province.
In Santa Cruz, the school year begins on the 29th, and this week
the second joint meeting
will be held .
Ctera warns the Government: "The start of classes depends on sending the funds and calling joint ventures"
The general secretary of the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (Ctera), Sonia Alesso, warned this Tuesday that the
start of classes
in the different provinces "
depends
on the
national government sending the funds
" for the teaching incentive and convening to parity, and maintained that, otherwise, there will be "an
impossible context to start
" the school year.
"If they do not call joint ventures or send funds,
we will charge less than last year
, an impossible context to start classes," said Alesso in statements made to
El Destape Radio
, regarding the situation of teachers in the weeks prior to the start of classes. scheduled for the last days of February and the beginning of March, according to each district.
Weekend and we continue with the renovations of one of the 19 educational establishments that we are preparing so that our children can have classes.
We invite parents and the community in general to join so we can move forward faster… pic.twitter.com/feuuty3oa0
— ClaudioVidal (@ClaudioVidalSer) February 10, 2024
Ctera will hold a press conference on Wednesday at 9:30 at its Buenos Aires headquarters, in which
Alesso and Roberto Baradel
, deputy general secretary of the union - and head of the Unified Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) - will participate. in which "the steps to follow a few days before the beginning of the school year" will be informed.
"Given the serious salary situation of teachers and our retirees, Ctera demands that the National Government
urgently convene the national teachers' joint meeting
. Since November, no increases have been received and inflation and the
adjustment in rates
has caused a significant loss of purchasing power," the union says in a statement released this Wednesday.
The union also asked the national government "to comply with the Educational Financing Law" and to send financial resources to the provinces for the FONID, the Salary Inequalities Compensation Fund and school cafeterias.
With information from the Télam agency.
D.S.