The Rio Negro state unions are impatient because the The Government did not set a new date for joint negotiations and did not give definitions on the bonus payments that would correspond to pay in a couple of weeks.
In the last few hours, Unter ratified tomorrow’s strike in response to the lack of an urgent call for joint meetings that he had demanded from the Government, while ATE has scheduled until today the wait for a call after the rejection of the last salary offer.
ATE and Unter are not the only unions that rejected the offer of fixed sums for June and July, they also Asspur and UPCN closed the door to an agreement questioning the proposed scheme as “insufficient”.
Everyone – with their nuances of greater or lesser harshness – agreed in demanding a new parity in which the Government presents an overcoming plan, but The answer did not reach anyone until yesterday.
Alberto Weretilneck’s administration alleges a lack of resources to improve the offer that includes sums ranging from 50,000 to 70,000 pesos in the case of state teachers and from 60,000 to 90,000 pesos for teachers. Also, the Government is dedicated to obtaining guarantees for the financial issue that would allow the bonuses to be paid in July.
On Friday, Weretilneck issued a harsh message to the Unter, which called for an immediate 24-hour strike after rejecting the offer and promised to complete another similar day tomorrow. He described it as “unintelligible” and warned that he will not call for parity while there are forceful measures, he will not settle the fixed sums offered with June salaries and also promised discounts for strikes.
It is unknown if the governor’s firmness in not paying the rejected fixed sums also extends to the other unions that did not sign the agreement, but did not take forceful measures either.
Four different strategies
ATE is cautious at the moment and places emphasis on highlighting that the joint ventures remained open in the province and instead of demanding and intimidating, he only asked for “greater efforts.” Now he focuses on the meeting he will have today with the Government to continue defining the text of the Collective Labor Agreement.
UPCN was more critical in his rejection and promised to go to court to raise the unconstitutionality of non-remunerative sumswhich the Government has been repeating throughout the year.
In the case of unter, In addition to the strike carried out on Friday, another 24-hour force measure is planned tomorrow, so students this week will only have one day of classes due to the holidays. Today the leadership will define what actions will complement the strike.
In addition, the teaching union has already convened its Congress for next Tuesday the 25th and made two presentations at the Ministry of Labor, one for the recent summons to teachers, and another for non-compliance with the November 2023 agreement due to the need to transfer a sum of 30,000 pesos to basic education.
Asspur, who makes up the Health Board, also rejected the proposal and requested a new sectoral negotiation.
The Union accused the Government of not fulfilling agreements and said that in three months of conversations the specific demands were not responded to, but he did not define forceful measures.
