The Minister of Education of the Nation, Jaime Perczyk, maintained that “on March 2 in Argentina there will be 15 million boys in school”, when informing about the proposal of more than 45% of increase raised to the teachers unions in negotiations for equal pay.
“What we did was agree on a proposal, today we made it public and gave it to the unions, which have their institutional mechanisms to define it, but there will be an agreement”Perczyk told C5N.
The Government proposed this Monday an increase of 45.46% to the five teaching unions, which will be paid in four tranches, in a meeting held by Ministers Perczyk and Labor, Claudio Moroni, together with the unionists of the sector.
It was the third meeting in search of a salary agreement for education workers, where it was discussed that the increases would be 21.21% in March, 8.08% in June, 8.08% in August and 8, 08% in September, which would give a total of 45.46% annual increase, according to union sources.
On the subject, the head of the educational portfolio stated that “the commitment that education workers beat inflation is good news for Argentina.”
The official explained that this implies “bringing the guaranteed national minimum wage to 50,000 pesos as of March 1 and 60,000 in September”when it will be reviewed again “to once again fulfill the commitment that workers’ wages beat inflation.”
Perczyk also argued that there is “a large investment from the national government” in education and brought “tranquility” to parents about the start of the school year.
This proposal implies “bringing the guaranteed national minimum wage to 50 thousand pesos as of March 1 and 60 thousand in September”Jaime Perczyk
“On March 2 in Argentina there will be 15 million children in school,” he confided, but recalled that “there is no normality” and that the school year will begin “in a pandemic.” For this reason, he stressed that “in order to have a careful school year, you have to get vaccinated, wear a mask and ventilate the classrooms,” among other measures.
He added that the Government is recovering students who dropped out of school in the coronavirus pandemic.
“We have recovered thousands of children, we believe that some are still missing,” he said. And he noted that some will return “with attendance” and others with the extension of the Progresar scholarships announced by President Alberto Fernández days ago, among other actions.
For his part, the sl general secretary of CTERA and assistant general secretary of UTE, Eduardo López, said in dialogue with Télam that “it is a proposal that we are going to analyze in the Congress on Friday.”
