With the same method with which he spread false news about the struggle of Health workers and seeking to criminalize forceful measures, Weretilneck used official media to divide educational communities.
When the measure of strength of the teaching union UnTER for Friday the 14th was known, Governor Alberto Weretilneck quickly launched a media campaign. Relying on official media that reproduce his speech and on X (former Twitter) he made the following statements that basically spread false and misleading information:
– “The teachers in our province have the best salaries in the country.”
FAKE: in a region where the basic basket is also the highest in the country, it is at least expected that the salary will be high. It is necessary to compare it with the cost of living. The majority of teaching positions do not reach the total basic basket, which in May ’24 was 828 thousand pesos. That is to say They are technically poverty wages, they are not “the best salaries in the country.”
-“…an increase of 132% since February.”
MISLEADING: For some positions such as undergraduate teachers, the increase from February to April represents 132%, but analyzing Last year the adjustment was 282% vs 290% inflation. For most workers, annual adjustments represent between 170 and 210%, which means an assured impoverishment that was repeated for all sectors of the country. Weretilneck was able to give a bigger raise to the teachers because their salaries were at rock bottom. All teachers are increasingly poorer.
Through these biased data, the Juntos Rio Negro Government seeks to divide the educational community by blaming teachers for taking away school days when it is the workers who keep the schools open despite the defunding and the crisis. Weretilneck guarantees the adjustment that Javier Milei needs to impose throughout the country to collect for the IMF and the Castello Bond creditors to whom the province paid 47 million dollars two months ago.
Weretilneck reported that on Friday the students missed a day of classes. But it says nothing about the adjustment policies that lead to schools without heating or with large leaks that also lose school days due to closed classrooms, and it does not say anything about the elimination of the school ski program, which is why teachers and families were concentrated in the school. square of handkerchiefs and kultrunes in Bariloche on the day of the strike.
The strategy of attacking workers’ strikes is not new. Every year the governor of Rio Negro (who has already been administering the province for 13 years) criminalizes using means similar to his. Two months ago he reported abandonment of patients at the Bariloche Zonal Hospital during the Health conflict. Not only did this not happen during the forceful measures, but he avoided mentioning the terrible conditions of the hospital that force patients to have to be treated in private health institutions.
Last year Weretilneck forged alliances with Peronism and radicalism to ensure his election as Governor. Today it is faithful to the plans of La Libertad Avanza, providing full support in the senate and deputies for the approval of the Bases Law, a brutal attack on the future of the great majorities and tailored to the extractivist plans that were already on the Juntos agenda. We are Río Negro.
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