The Ministry of Education of the city of Buenos Aires convened for this Wednesday the teachers’ unions to a joint meeting, with a view to the start of the school year scheduled for next February 21.
The meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. at the headquarters of the educational portfolio, located at Carlos H. Perette and Calle 10 in the 31st neighborhood of Retiro, as reported to Télam from the Buenos Aires administration.
The call comes after the decision of the local administration to eliminate the health care measures against Covid for the return to the classrooms of Buenos Aires students from the 21st of this month, which generated criticism from the teachers’ unions.
Regarding salaries, the union secretary of Ademys, Amanda Martín, said that the proposal that the City Government will make is not yet known; However, she maintained that her union’s proposal would be that “no teacher can earn less than a basic $80,000 per position.”
Ademys will request a “monthly indexation clause for inflation” in the teaching parity
The union secretary of the Association of Middle and Higher Education (Ademys), Amanda Martín, said this Wednesday that this union will ask at the Buenos Aires joint meeting that will be held in the next few hours “a clause of monthly indexation for inflation”since the objective is “to recompose the salary taking as a reference what the family basket indicates”.
“The expectation of the meeting is that the teacher’s salary be recomposed. They are projected 52% inflation this yearit is important that we have the mechanisms to be able to counteract it,” explained Martín in statements to Télam.
“The salaries of the Argentines and the CABA teacher are down, That is why we are going to be asking for the monthly indexation clause for inflation, so that we can bridge the gap,” he said.
The trade unionist pointed out, in dialogue with this agency, that “Today a teacher is earning 55,000 pesos for a position”figure that is below the food basket, therefore will request “a basic salary of 80 thousand pesosapproaching the 130 thousand indicated by the INDEC family basket”.
“Our goal is that no teacher is below the poverty line”Martin said.
On the other hand, the leader spoke about the start of classes and the new measures announced by the Buenos Aires government: “Let’s see how these weeks unfold, We believe that preventive measures are still necessary to take care of the educational community.
Martín affirmed that in the announcement made by the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, he stipulates that the return to classes “will be without any prevention measure for Covid-19.”
“Among the measures that we consider necessary are cleaning, testing and not eliminating the figure of close contact,” said the union secretary.
Likewise, he considered that “the Minister (of Education, Soledad Acuña) said that we are in a pre-pandemic situation” when “the coronavirus is still continuing.”
