Venezuelan teachers are in a state of lethargy due to low wages

The Venezuelan Trade Union Leaders’ Training (Fordisi) said on Sunday that the country’s teachers are mired in a “hopeless lethargy”two weeks before the end of the school holidays, due to the “terrible working conditions” that include, he said, low salaries.

“Two weeks before the end of the school holidays, teachers and all workers in the education sector find themselves plunged into a hopeless lethargy due to the implications of returning to classes, a product of the sustained humanitarian crisis over the last few years.”Fordisi noted in a bulletin published in X.

He added that there are currently many teachers who “They resist a system that does not respect democratic values, laws and the Constitution”.

“Teachers in Venezuela receive a salary that does not exceed 15 dollars, this situation negatively impacts the student population, since due to precarious salaries teachers cannot attend classes every day and there is even a lack of teachers in learning areas such as, for example, mathematics, physics,” he added.

Fordisi indicated that this situation has also generated a “contingency schedule”, known as mosaic, “reducing working hours by two or three days a week”.

In July, the Observatory of Labor Conflicts and Union Management of the Institute of Advanced Trade Union Studies (Inaesin) recorded 18 labor conflicts, centered on the demand for “decent wages,” “better working conditions” and against “workplace harassment.”

Inaesin specified that the highest percentage of claims were made by workers in the education sector, with 44.44% of the total for the month, followed by basic industry personnel and media personnel, 11.11% each.

EFE