Through a statement, AFUTU expressed that “in the presence of education authorities in the media, which can give their unique and incontrovertible view of the educational reality, AFUTU workers have not had the same opportunities to inform on the conditions under which teachers have agreed to the choice of hours.
Disrespect
“Errors, marches and counter-marches, rumours, comings and goings, long hours in crowded places, without responses from the authorities, with audios of leaders circulating about election dates, with official announcements without schedules, with suspensions a few hours in advance. This is how the UTU workers are disrespected,” they denounced in a statement.
They assure that they are also disrespected “when on the television channels they must listen without being able to answer that everything is wonderful, that there were no cuts, that in the interior there are no towns like Rivera that have closed courses for not reaching 20 students ”.
“There is disrespect to Victoria who has 0 hours and no longer has her hours in the music workshop, to Santiago with her 0 hours of computing at the FPB, to Lorena without her affiliation hours, to Soledad without her hours of literature , Ivo without his drawing hours, Richard who lost his welding hours, Adrián who lost his bakery workshop hours, Lucía , who lost her physical education hours, Tomás, Nadia, Claudia, Luis, and many others who lost more than 3,000 hours”, they express.
scope of negotiation
Faced with so much “outrage”, AFUTU demands a scope for negotiation, and ensures that the last gesture they have received from the Directorate was the “uniformed squad and the invasion of the educational center”.
After that, “only the silence and the complacent tour of the big media where it is said that everything is wonderful.”
“But, we workers continue to fight from the schools, from the work of parents and teachers so that the UTU does not die: what is achieved from now on will be the result of our struggle, of denouncing this policy of dismantling and not of the concealment and the mistreatment of the workers”, assures AFUTU in a statement that bears the signature of Mabel Mallo and Mariana Píriz, president and general secretary of the union, respectively.
