2023-09-13 01:36:00
The provincial government and the teaching union (UEPC) They are waiting for a new call from the Ministry of Labor for another meeting within the framework of mandatory conciliation, but so far there has been no progress in the negotiations.
Despite the secrecy surrounding the talks, both provincial officials and the UEPC leadership led by Juan Monserrat privately recognize that the positive outcome is that a “good climate of dialogue” is maintained. Although there is no immediate solution to the conflict.
In this context, for the moment, the most likely thing is that the provincial government will request the extension of this first section of the mandatory conciliation that will end on Wednesday, September 19.
If an agreement is not reached by that date, the Province has the possibility of extending the conciliation for 10 more business days, that is, until Tuesday, October 3.
For the moment, the positions seem irreducible, despite the good dialogue: the Schiarettist officials have not presented a specific offer that surpasses the one that the provincial teaching assembly decisively rejected.
The proposal for the last half of the year (actually, it also includes January of next year) is the one approved by the rest of the state unions: 20% increase for August; another 7% increase for September, and a trigger clause from October, which would guarantee provincial public salaries not to lose against inflation.
Except for teachers, the rest of the public employees have already received the first agreed increase of 20%.
This is a discussion that is taking place at the joint negotiation table. The UEPC requests that the increases that the Province is paying be granted to the rest of the state sectors.
While the Government maintains its position of not paying teachers the increases agreed upon by the rest of the unions.
In a negotiation that is maintained. It remains to be seen if Governor Juan Schiaretti, who ultimately makes the decisions, agrees to pay teachers the increases that the rest of the state teachers receive.
In the event that the provincial leader accepts the union’s request, teachers should receive a 27% increase next month, counting the two quotas agreed upon by the rest of the unions.
This Tuesday night, from the Civic Center they made a gesture towards the teachers. With the decision to raise the limit for the pension deferral to 500 thousand pesos, which will benefit at least a portion of the 6,000 retired teachers who until now are within the 60-day deferral to collect the increases that the assets receive. (See separate).
However, a UEPC source assured The voice that the measure “leaves in” the majority of the 6,000 retired teachers affected by the deferral, because there was an increase in salaries of 60% in the first quarter of the year.
“Removing the 6,000 retired teachers from the deferral was a topic of negotiation in the joint venture. Now they do it by decree and without us being able to use it as an improvement to take it to the provincial assembly,” complained a leader of the UEPC leadership.
It must be remembered that the Province requested conciliation, after the provincial teaching assembly had decreed a 24-hour strike, for last August 29.
Since then, meetings between representatives of the Government and the UEPC have been held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor in Córdoba.
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