(ADN).- The teaching unions confirmed the 24-hour national strike for today, Thursday, May 23. UnTER adheres and there will be no classes in Río Negro either. The measure is carried out “in the absence of responses to salary, labor and educational financing demands,” CTERA reported.
“We stand in unity with all the teaching unions in the country to demand answers to the demands for salaries, labor and educational financing, in defense of the rights of the working class and against the adjustment of the national and provincial governments,” the union indicated. rionegrino.
Through a statement, UnTER stressed:
-Urgent call to the National Teacher Parity.
-Restitution of the FONID.
-Financing for public schools and universities.
-More educational budget.
-Sending resources for school infrastructure.
-Sending funds for school cafeterias.
-Financing for Educational Programs.
-Urgent emergency increase in the salaries of retired teachers.
-No to the transfer of the Provincial Funds to the Nation.
-No to the modification of the National and Provincial Teacher Retirement Schemes.
-Cessation of layoffs and reinstatement of all dismissed workers in the educational areas of the Nation.
-On the same Thursday, the Budget and Education Commissions of Deputies will meet in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation. In this framework, the CTERA will hold a rally in front of Congress to demand that the Commissions deal with university financing and the restitution of the FONID.
«We once again demand that the National Government assume the responsibility of guaranteeing public education throughout the country as a social right, as dictated by the National Education Law and our Constitution. We demand answers to the loss of the purchasing power of our salaries and the resources necessary for the functioning of the educational system,” UnTER stressed.
