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Teacher unions decided to hold a 24-hour national strike next Thursday - Infobae
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Los sindicatos docentes decidieron realizar un paro nacional de 24 horas el próximo jueves
Tanto CTERA como los gremios agrupados en la CGT convocarán a una nueva medida de fuerza ante la falta de convocatoria de la paritaria nacional docente por parte del Gobierno. Qué alcances tendrá la huelga y quiénes la protagonizarán
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May 20, 2024
Both CTERA and the unions grouped in the CGT will call for a new measure of force in the absence of a call for the national teaching parity by the Government. What scope will the strike have and who will lead it?
By Ricardo Carpena
Once again, empty classrooms: teaching unions will carry out another national strike for salary reasons (Illustrative Image Infobae)
The teaching unions will carry out a 24-hour strike this Thursday at all levels of the educational system (initial, primary, secondary, technical, higher education institutes and university level) in protest against the salary delay and the lack of a call from the Government to the national joint venture of the sector, which “has been valued since December 2023 at $250,000.”
The measure of force, which was resolved by both the 4 teaching unions of the CGT (UDA, AMET, CEA and SADOP) and by the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA), will occur due to the stagnation of the negotiations with the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , who on the 6th of this month promised responses to salary claims, such as the call for a national teacher union, and did not call the leaders of the education sector again.
The Secretary of Educational Policies of the CGT, Sergio Romero, who leads the Argentine Teachers' Union (UDA), called a press conference for this Tuesday, at 3:30 p.m., at the CGT headquarters of Azopardo 802 to provide details on the planned strike. by Thursday.
Sergio Romero, leader of UDA, in the mobilization of the CGT for Worker's Day
In statements to Infobae, Romero justified the unions' measure of force: "The educational system in Argentina is going through a very deep crisis and we have tried to collaborate to overcome this situation, but unfortunately a solution could not be found with the Government." :
The unionist highlighted that the reasons for the protests “are of all kinds” and explained that “in terms of salaries, initial salaries have never been seen in the country below the poverty line and in some cases below the indigence line, and That is why this situation must be reversed quickly.” “We have poor teachers who cannot cover their essential needs,” he added. Many of them are heads of families and that is very serious, it is part of a deep crisis regarding wages.”
Romero, who was one of the leaders who met with Pettovello two weeks ago, said: “We found a minister very willing to negotiate , but so far they have not called us , as planned and as they promised, to call the national teaching parity.
CTERA leaders, in the university march
According to the head of UDA, another claim from the unions in the sector is that the Government “has greatly reduced investment in education, as a result of refusing to give continuity to the National Teacher Incentive Fund, that is, not only are salaries below the poverty line, but they have even been reduced by not paying the Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID).”
He added that “the investment of 6% of GDP is not reached either, as provided for in the educational financing laws, but in this government administration less than half of that percentage has been invested.” “It is serious because it implies that they have stopped distributing books and netbooks to students, which aggravates the very deep crisis in the Argentine educational system,” Romero highlighted.
The Cegetista leader considered that "it is necessary for the workers, together with the State, to find an area of negotiation that allows Argentine education to be removed from this state" and emphasized: "A country shows signs of what it wants to be when education It is a priority, it is not a priority, but for this government, obviously, education is not a priority.”
