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(Updated with the signing of the agreement)
After culminating a strike with blockades and road closures in some regions, the Government and the teachers of the urban sector set up a dialogue table this Friday night to resolve the request for new items for the sector. Around 10:00 p.m., they signed an agreement with which the mobilized sector agrees to lift the pressure measures.
Point two of the agreement states: “The Ministry of Education assigned 2,500 items for management in 2022 and at the request (of the teaching profession) 800 more items are consolidated, making a total of 3,300 newly created items based on the financial capacity of the State.”
Likewise, the Government undertakes to provide administrative items for the sector.
Thus, almost two weeks of conflicts were closed whose main point was the doors of the Ministry of Education. The document precisely establishes that the mobilizations are lifted.
The appointment was installed minutes after 7:00 p.m. The leadership of the teaching profession meets with authorities of the Ministry of Education in their dependencies.
Hours before, the Vice Minister of Regular Education, Bartolomé Puma, confirmed the invitation of Minister Édgar Pary.
“Our Minister of Education, Edgar Pary, has sent the invitation today at seven o’clock at night to the urban teachers to be able to sit down and discuss and agree on educational guidelines,” he informed radio Éxito.
The authority announced that, in this dialogue, Education will ratify the 10,560 items that were destined for the sector and reach an agreement on a consensual rearrangement.
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The call was attended by the Confederation of Urban Education Workers of Bolivia, which confirmed its attendance.
“We believe that from this dialogue we will surely be able to advance on the issue of demand and be able to resolve this conflict,” the sector’s national executive, Ludwin Salazar, told the station.
There will be discounts for unemployment
On Thursday, Florencia Uriola, leader of the National Association of Parents, lamented the consequences of the strike that prompted the teaching profession this Friday and anticipated that the sector will ask the Government to declare the position of teachers a “free profession”, to whom called “uncompromising”.
In this context, Vice Minister Puma announced that “teachers who do not show up at their job source will be discounted. Those who do not work are not paid.
