The education unions declared insufficient the salary proposal made to them this Friday by the Entre Ríos government in the sector’s joint meeting for the months of April, May and June. The negotiation went to an interim period until May 7.
The proposal consists of an increase of 4% for April (of which 3% has already been settled on account), 5% for May and 5% for June. On the other hand, it offered a clause guaranteeing a call within 5 days of knowing the June INDEC inflation to discuss increases in teaching salaries again at the end of the first semester.
The motives of the guilds
AGMER, AMET and SADOP urged the government to improve the offer as they considered it somewhat insufficient. They warned that the salary calculation base is not updated, which is still based on January values, and they asked that the claim for the insufficient salary guideline for December 2023 be included and addressed.
After the meeting, the Deputy Secretary of the Association of Technical Teaching Teachers (AMET), Carlos Varela asserted that “without a doubt the proposal presented by the Government takes us away from the possibility of beginning to recover purchasing power that has been lost in recent years and, above all, in recent months,” he recorded. APF. AMET will transmit the proposal to the bases, which “must define the union steps to follow.”
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AGMER brought to the negotiation this Friday the resolution of its last Congress, which established as a demand a salary proposal that covers the first half of the year and that ensures percentages of monthly increases for April, May and June. He also requested a clause so that, once the accumulated inflation as of June is known, the difference with the salary guideline for the first semester would be automatically paid.
The other requests from the unions were to update the calculation base and an increase to the transfer code.
“It is the provincial government that has the responsibility to provide a response according to the needs of teachers, in a very difficult socioeconomic context for all education workers, and to provide a minimum of predictability and tranquility,” AGMER considered.
