2024-02-28 00:54:51
Leaders of the five national teaching unions met with government authorities to discuss the minimum income of the sector, following the strike carried out by CTERA on Monday, at the beginning of the school year in some provinces.
The Secretary of Education, Carlos Torrendell, received the representatives of CTERA, UDA, AMET, SADOP and CEA and confirmed the continuity of the Compensating Fund (aimed at the provinces with fewer resources) and the end of the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID). The official explained that they will seek to redirect the funds to policies linked to “effective learning” (such as the National Literacy Plan) and the school information system.
“They didn’t offer anything. It was a dialogue of the deaf. Until a certain time they wanted to deny the equal scope. We are leaving very sad, because we have teachers with the minimum salary in Argentina of 250 thousand pesos. Many of them are heads of families,” said the national general secretary of the Argentine Teachers’ Union (UDA), Sergio Romero, following the meeting in statements to the press.
Along these lines, the union member added: “By not paying the incentive, It is no longer 250 thousand, but they are subtracting it from the initial salary. All bad news, there was no talk of investment. It is a responsibility of the national State to guarantee educational financing.” In turn, Romero announced a call for Wednesday the 28th at 5:00 p.m., in the Saúl Ubaldini room of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), where they plan to call a general strike of the teaching unions grouped in that workers’ union.
For her part, the head of the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA), Sonia Alesso, expressed: “We have voted on the action measures in the CTERA Congress. We do not have much to doubt in this sense. Yes, a question of temporality because we are convinced that we are right, in the sense that this must be fulfilled and that they are already harming us teachers.”
“The failure to formally call, in a timely manner, with an agenda, a proposal and the failure to send funds to teachers in the provinces is already having consequences that are strikes in the provinces. If this is not resolved by Tuesday, they will continue“added the union leader.
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The meeting between the teaching unions and the Government
For its part, following the meeting with the teaching unions, the Government confirmed “the continuity of the Compensation Fund and the end of the National Teacher Incentive Fund, where it will seek to redirect the funds to policies linked to effective learning (such as the National Education Plan). Literacy) and the school information system”.
In turn, they assured that to “establish the salary floor, “The provinces were asked to send their offer to be discussed at the table.” During the meeting, the teaching unions requested the salary recomposition, the payment of the debt with respect to the FONID and that the Government continue the teacher compensation fund.
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Meanwhile, the meeting went into a recess until next Tuesday, when there will be a new call to unblock the conflict with the teaching unions. The summons included the Ministers of Education of the provinces and the City of Buenos Aires, all as part of the Federal Council of Education, in order to “initiate dialogues in order to agree on the national framework agreement for the minimum teacher salary.”
Last Monday, CTERA, the majority union of national teachers, carried out a strike with 90% compliance throughout the country, in rejection of the elimination of the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID) and the Salary Compensation Fund. For their part, given the call that the Government had sent, the other four national teaching unions, which are part of the CGT, came off strike: UDA, Sadop, AMET and CEA.
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