In the midst of the demand for the teaching incentive to the Government, the governor of Santa Cruz went out to paint schools in his province

All provinces rose a note to the government to claim the funds for the teaching incentive and the connectivity component that has been paid since the coronavirus pandemic. In the midst of this tension, the governor of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidalwent out to paint classrooms in your province and asked parents to join.

During the long weekend, two weeks before the start of classes in the Patagonian province – in some towns like El Chaltén they have already started -, Vidal, who had a union career prior to his electoral victory, showed himself roller in hand inside the Santa Cruz classrooms.

“Weekend and we continue with spare parts of one of the 19 educational establishments that we are preparing so that our children can have classes,” said Vidal.

The southern president also launched a curious call: “We invite parents and the community in general to join and thus be able move faster…”.

Vidal’s action occurs while the president of the Provincial Council of Education of Santa Cruz (the Minister of Education), Daniel Busquetjoined his provincial peers in the area to express to the Secretary of Education of the Nation, Carlos Torrendelthe concern for lack of transfer to the provinces of the funds to supplement the payment of salaries, and which is popularly known as a teaching incentive.

A week ago, the governor Vidal opened salary negotiations with the unions in which the provincial government told the union members that it will carry out labor measures that the teachers had been demanding. For this reason, beyond the fact that They did not reach a numerical agreementThe workers’ representatives were satisfied with the first meeting.

In Santa Cruz, the school year that begins on the 29th, and this week will be the second joint meeting.

The general secretary of the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (Ctera), Sonia Alesso, warned this Tuesday that the start of classes in the different provincesdepend that him national government sends the funds” of the teaching incentive and calls for joint meetings, and maintained that, otherwise, “a impossible context to start“the school year.

“If they don’t call joint ventures or send funds, we will charge less than last yearimpossible context to start classes,” said Alesso in statements made to Radio El Destaperegarding the situation of teachers in the weeks prior to the start of classes scheduled for the last days of February and the beginning of March, according to each district.

Ctera will hold a press conference on Wednesday at 9:30 at its Buenos Aires headquarters, in which they will participate Alesso and Roberto Baradeldeputy general secretary of the union – and head of the Unified Union of Education Workers of Buenos Aires (SUTEBA) -, in which “the steps to follow a few days before the beginning of the school year” will be reported.

“Given the serious salary situation of teachers and our retirees, Ctera demands that the National Government urgent call to the national teaching parity. Since November there have been no increases and inflation and rate adjustment has caused a significant loss of purchasing power,” the union says in a statement released this Wednesday.

The union also asked the national government “to comply with the Educational Financing Law” and to send financial resources to the provinces for the FONID, the Salary Inequalities Compensation Fund and school cafeterias.

With information from the Télam agency.