Fernando Camacho Servin
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday April 30, 2022, p. 12
Workers of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) marched yesterday to demand a wage increase above inflation, as well as the basification of employees who do not have said benefit, the compacting of positions and the creation of new teaching positions to attend to the expansion of student enrollment.
Around 300 workers from the institute marched around 11:30 a.m. from the so-called Red Square of the Adolfo López Mateos Professional Unit, heading for the IPN General Directorate building, amid slogans such as salary increase or national unemployment
Y basification, basification
.
Guadalupe Alejandro Garduño, general secretary of section 60 of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), explained that the workers of the Polytechnic demand that the commitment to increase the salary above the 7.33 percent that inflation had in 2021 be fulfilled. , in addition to creating at least 3,000 new teaching positions to cover some 250,000 hours of academic work at the IPN.
According to the union leader, the Polytechnic grew 20 percent in infrastructure and 30 percent in student enrollment, so the creation of new positions for teachers is essential to cover work in classrooms with students, since at this time there are from 50 to 70 students per classroom, from the first to the third semester at the upper secondary level.
Garduño regretted that so far the IPN authorities have not made any proposal for an increase, arguing that they have not yet received authorization from the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) and pointed out that the union representation decided to suspend the talks they had with the authorities in the absence of a response to their demands.
During the meeting at the General Directorate of the IPN, Garduño pointed out that teachers we are not going to stop classes, because that would be a setback for us too
although at the same time he urged the authorities to promptly respond to his demands, given that the teachers obeyed immediately when they were ordered to return to class in person.
The aforementioned increase, he insisted, should have materialized since last February 28, so it is urgent that the IPN resolve this demand now.
