He general strike this Thursday continues to generate adhesions. The teachers, involved in a serious financing problem due to the lack of budget at all levels, communicated their participation on the day of the strike, which earned some criticism from the extreme right, implying that The fight for the essentiality of education did not end, but only took an interim period.
Javier Milei already tried to advance with its essentiality through DNU 70/2023, and they also did so from Congress with the labor reform that was included in the new Bases law. However, the proposal failed and was not part of the half-sanction of Deputies, which was more aimed at obtaining support from sectors of the center than at making the debate more complex. But, like other anti-union initiatives of this project of “modernization” of work, the right will seek to achieve what it could not. After teaching unions confirmed their participation in next Thursday’s strike, referents on the matter and linked to the Government came out to propose an action plan.
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Voices of the PRO
Far from giving up the battle as lost, Macrismo once again agitated for its attempt to eliminate the possibility of strikes in schools. Soledad Acuña, former Minister of Education of the CABA, wondered if certain sectors “still do not understand why it was important to declare an essential service to education by law? Corporations are never in favor of students’ rights. NEVER”.
The former Buenos Aires official campaigned with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta last year but distanced herself from the former Buenos Aires head of government and He approached the ideas of Mauricio Macri who asks to return to the bases of the PRO. After the electoral defeat, Acuña is active, although she does not appear publicly, and works on rebuilding the party alongside its new leader. The message drew a lot of attention less than a week after a parliamentary defeat in that regard, but, far from being an isolated statement, it is a yellow line of action.
From Deputies, the president of the Education commission, Alejandro Finocchiaro, picked up the gauntlet: ““In defense of public education” Ctera once again leaves the kids without class. A political oxymoron,” he said in X and added the slogan “essential education now.”
The priority of Congress will be the university budget, but the intention is that the essentiality in education is also approved, or at least has a boost to advance. Two months ago, Finocchiaro presented, once again, a bill after the previous one lost parliamentary status. The intention will be to move forward this year, once the financing problem is resolved.
The strategy
According to the text, which is intended to be consecrated for posterity as the “Finocchiaro Law”, it seeks “declare Education as an Essential Strategic Service at all levels and modalities included in compulsory schooling.” The project intends to guarantee minimum services that avoid total service interruption.
In its 7th article, the project establishes a minimum percentage that each educational institution must “provide” to guarantee “the opening of the establishment and the development of pedagogical activities”: the “50% of the teaching staff, assistants and managers attend the school days affected by measures of direct or indirect action, strike or teaching and non-teaching strike that arise during the school year and that affect the normal delivery of the curricular proposal in force in each jurisdiction.
Those personnel affected by the guard system, “previously informed” of that responsibility, “You will not be able to participate in forceful measures that affect the normal functioning of the minimum guards on the assigned days.” In its arguments, the project establishes that the objectives of the three levels of compulsory education “cannot be achieved in any way in a non-face-to-face manner.” In addition to the negative pedagogical, physical and psychological effects on young people, it is contemplated that, if it were transformed into something virtual, it would negatively affect the activities of families, such as the right to work of the students’ parents.
With the intention of adding wills, the Macrismo project will seek to make it compatible with one presented by the UCR. In this initiative, under the signature of Carla Carrizo, establishments must guarantee their opening every day stipulated in the calendar, even during strike days, as well as their food services, in addition to “a minimum percentage of 30% attendance of the payroll of teaching and non-teaching personnel” at each of the levels of compulsory education. This percentage will increase to 50% in case of force measures lasting more than 48 hours and at 75% in case they extend for more than five days.
The education commission It was activated last Thursday, after a session to guarantee the university budget collapsed, hours after the April 23 march. Due to lack of quorum, Union for the Homeland He could not enable the debate but radicalism committed to moving forward with the treatment.
Shortly after that failure, the UCR requested that a commission meeting be called, which Finocchiaro agreed to. The meeting did not serve to advance at a fast pace, but rather a schedule of activities was determined so as not to advance impulsively or regret it, “as happened with the rental law,” the former Macri official said.
As agreed at that meeting, university financing will be the priority. To do this, an information meeting will be held this Tuesday, then another one will take place a week later and seven days later the possibility of ruling would be enabled. He FONIDHowever, it will have its own schedule.
