Teacher strike: which unions call it and are their claims appropriate

A new convulsed week is coming in the schools of the Buenos Aires province due to the fact that the normal teaching of classes will be affected, as a result of a new teacher strike which will start in CABA and is driven by two guilds that bring together education workers.

The measure of force will last for two days, the Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18which will be carried out by the union UTE-CTERA in the Federal Capital and the dissident wing Multicolor SWEATSHIRT will be folded in the Buenos Aires territory, through which they will express the request for salary recomposition in a context of incessant rising inflation.

Within the claims that the teachers will raise in the convocation days, the creation of a labor conditions board in order to demand answers to the countless number of problems they face in their daily work. One of the main themes in which they will increase is the deficiency of school infrastructure.

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“The measure is in the context of great discontent against the adjustment of the Government of Kicillof, with a salary which continues to be poverty, with schools that keep falling apart and with the education public sector in crisis due to underfunding of education”, emphasized the delegate of Multicolor SWEATSHIRTMaria Diaz Reck

The parity offer made by the Provincial Executive Power increases a $164,000 the salary of the Teacher of Grade of simple day, sum that is located below the inflation and it is a “poverty wage” according to the vision of the representatives of the faction that confronts Roberto Baradel within the organization.

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What are the 9 demands that SUTEBA Multicolor will raise in the teacher strike?

• Salary, the same family basket in the preceptor position (PR) with monthly indexation for inflation
• Urgent protection measures and protocols in situations of violence and intervention for children and teachers
• Construction and renovation of schools
• Creating Missing Floor Charges
• Rejection of work overload and anti-educational and anti-statutory reforms such as the 5th hour
• Regularization of the payment of wages
• Increase in quantity and quality, universalization of school food service
• Full benefits of IOMA, no more copayments
• Enough of the delay in retirement procedures

For his part, the Director General of Culture and Education in Buenos Aires, Alberto Sileoni responded to the request promoted by the guilds for the execution of teacher strike and argued that “the right to strike is constitutional, but there are conditionalities and, among others, one of them is that the organization that summons has provincial representation.”

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On the other hand, Multicolor SWEATSHIRT called to promote a new instance of provincial coordination to discuss the continuity after the decision of the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires last Thursday, which consists of bringing forward to May the salary increase points scheduled for the month of July for workers under Law 10,430 (public administration and teachers).

P.M