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Misiones: Passalacqua agreed with the teaching unions, but the negotiation with the police continues to unblock the conflict - Infobae​


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May 20, 2024

The provincial government announced a salary increase for teachers. A definition remains for security force personnel

By Juan A. Bracco


uprising of the Police in Misiones
The governor of Misiones, Hugo Passalacqua, reached an agreement with the teaching unions and announced a salary increase , but negotiations continue with the delegates of the local police to decompress the police conflict , a protest that keeps the entire province and the that today health personnel joined, who took emergency ambulances out of service and took them to the picket line.


After Sunday's see-saw, the conflict raised by a portion of the police personnel, driven by retirees and accompanied by family members, entered the zone of definitions. This morning there were contacts between protest leaders and provincial officials . They agreed to go to an intermission room until noon. The talks will resume after Passalacqua's announcement of salary increases.


The Government had anticipated last week that the salary recomposition for the entire public sector would take place this Monday. But, in the meantime, a revolt by a faction of uniformed men broke out. The movement, driven by a group of retired leaders of the force, mainly attracted non-commissioned officers, personnel who have incomplete secondary and even primary education. Some teachers also joined. And beneficiaries of national social plans who were discharged.


uprising of the Police in Misiones

In the last minutes they learned of the agreement reached with the teachers. The minimum salary will go from 265 thousand pesos to 400 thousand pesos, for primary school teachers and without seniority. The government also reported that secondary school teachers “will reach a million pesos.”


“It is 27% on average. The same was offered to other levels, especially in health, where an agreement is expected, and in the police, which is the sector most reluctant to agree,” they added from the provincial executive.


Once the announcement is made for all sectors, there will be two possible reactions. Or the protesters raise their protest in agreement with the increase. Or, on the contrary, the conflict deepens due to discontent with the improvement proposed by the authorities.

Within the missionary Government there is concern, and even some fear, that this last alternative is the most feasible. They observe that in the last few hours more people from other sectors have approached the headquarters of the Radioelectric Command, the focus of the conflict since Friday.

Among the groups that have joined the uprising is a fraction of the provincial health. Employees of that department took five ambulances from emergency service 107 out of service (which performs a similar function to that of SAME in Buenos Aires). And they took the units to the picket line.

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The headquarters of the Radioelectric Command that is taken over by a group of provincial agents (NA)

A large part of the missionary society, even those who sympathize with the protesters, view with concern this maneuver that violates State property. They observe that it goes beyond the salary bid with the Passalacqua administration. Something similar happened with the dissemination of videos of hooded police personnel acting at night to remove mobile phones from the force.

On the other hand, public authorities have decided to move from the front of the scene to federal forces. Sunday's intervention did not have the expected results. And it further altered social peace, according to the Government. At first, the intention of the Ministry of National Security was that the Gendarmerie and Prefecture troops deployed do not enter into "hand-to-hand combat", but rather remain in positions supporting the Provincial Police.

But on Friday the magistrate involved in the incident, Ricardo Walter Balor (head of the provincial Court of Instruction No. 6), ordered both the police force and the Gendarmerie stationed in Misiones to process the eviction of the Command. Faced with a court order, political decisions took a backseat.

Withdrawing federal troops would now be a maneuver to avoid further complicating social peace in the province, the provincial government commented. They do not want to force situations of breakdown of coexistence. The thing is that when the conflict runs out, sooner or later, they will have to continue coexisting in a small community where everyone, in one way or another, knows each other.
 
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