by After the unions questioned the start of classes, the Government confirmed that it will convene the teaching unions in the coming days to discuss the national parity.
According to sources from the Ministry of Education, ClarionThe meeting will take place in the coming days, before the start of the 2024 school year.
The call implies a change in the official position. “It is not such, there is no national teaching partnership,” presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni had said this Wednesday, although – beyond the technicality – the official had admitted that the call was being “evaluated.”
“Let us remember that teacher salaries depend on each of the governors,” Adorni then remarked, in line with the Government’s view of the conflict. In the same sense, the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, had ratified another point that makes the demands of the educational sector: the interruption of the payment, by the Nation, of the teaching incentive, a salary bonus that has made up the salaries of teachers.
This panorama had put teaching unions on alert and unionists such as Sonia Alesso, general secretary of CTERA, had warned that if this joint body was not realized, the start of classes would be in danger by projecting a “very conflictive scenario”.
In tune, Roberto Baradel, Buenos Aires boss of SUTEBA, had escalated the conflict. “We will confront those who want to destroy public education,” bellowed the Kirchnerist leader in pursuit of a strike that broke his passive stance, measures of remaining silent and without exerting force for five years, at least since the government of Mauricio Macri.
