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The Autonomous City of Buenos Aireslike the rest of the country, will be hit by a national teaching strike next Thursday, May 23, which will suspend classes at all levels for the entire day, in demand for a salary recomposition of the workers of the education.
This was reported by the Confederation of Education Workers (Ctera) on their social networks. In addition, they confirmed in an official statement that the union will hold a rally in front of the National Congress next Thursday, to demand that the commissions of the Chamber of Deputies the treatment of university financing and restitution of the FONID. Regarding this last point, it is about National Teacher Incentive Fundwhich covers between 10% and 15% of teachers’ salaries in the country, created in 1998 and which the Government eliminated at the end of March.
“The lack of responses has caused a loss of the purchasing power of our salaries – since December 2023 there are teachers with salaries of 250 thousand pesos -, educational defunding in all areas, causing and deepening provincial conflicts, in the absence of the State as a guarantor. of the teacher salary floor and the resources necessary for the functioning of the educational system,” the document highlights.
The choice of the date coincides with the sessions in the National Congress where they will meet Budget and Education Commissions of Deputies, and that is why the square in front of Parliament will be the venue chosen for the demonstration. The first to be in favor of suspending activities for the date were the leaders of the Union Front of National Universities, demanding an update in teacher salaries. Later, this measure was also added to by the Ctera and the four guilds of teachers enrolled in the CGT. These are the Union of Argentine Teachers (UDA), Association of Technical Teaching Teachers (AMET), Argentine Union of Private Teachers (SADOP) and the Confederation of Argentine Educators (CEA).
In this way, we sought to guarantee protests in educational establishments at all levels. However, the Government’s recent announcement about an agreement with the National Interuniversity Council to update the games of all the games by around 270% universities National reports raise doubts about whether higher education leaders will now participate in the teaching salary claim.
It will be the second teacher strike since April, when Ctera carried out the first action to request “the urgent call to the National Teachers’ Joint Union, the restitution of a national salary floor, the sending of funds for School Canteens, the National Educational Programs, Infrastructure; also an urgent increase in the salaries of our retirees and the sending of national funds to the Provincial Pension Funds.”
Furthermore, the Government will meet again with a demonstration about the education one month after the march for education, which brought together representatives of national universities with a crowd in much of the country, as part of the previously mentioned conflict between the houses of education and the ruling party, which now seems closer to being resolved later of the approval of new funds.
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