The National Government offered this Wednesday to the five teachers unions with national representation, in the context of the federal parity, a salary floor of $70 thousand pesos as of this month, of $75 thousand from November 1 and of $77,137 pesos to December 1, and proposed a monitoring and review clause of the agreement next November.
This was confirmed to Télam by the union spokesmen who participated in the almost two-hour meeting at the Pizzurno Palace, who added that the Government also ratified the agreements previously reached with the unions in respect of the amounts for the National Teacher Incentive Fund ( Fonid) and an extraordinary fixed sum of $1,800 pesos.
The Ministry of Education confirmed that Minister Jaime Perczyk proposed to the unions to raise the guaranteed national minimum wage to $70,000 pesos this month and to $77,137 since December, and stated in a document that the unions will define this Thursday if they accept the offer.
The educational portfolio also proposed review the agreement in November and grant a sum of $5,634 pesos from this month as an additional amount for “educational material and connectivity” and $6,173 pesos from next December, the statement said.
“The commitment is to defend public education and the salaries of workers, teachers and professors. The commitment and the political will of the Government is that salaries recover and beat the inflationary process,” Perczyk pointed out.
Union spokespersons told Télam that it was determined that next October the parties will open the Negotiating Commission on the Teaching Framework Agreementbut the unions indicated this afternoon that they will evaluate the proposal before waiting for a new official call to respond to the formal offer and continue the negotiations.
Those same spokesmen maintained that no date for a new meeting was determined to continue the negotiations and that there is only a fourth intermission to study the offer.
Union sources reported that in December 2021 the teacher’s salary floor was $40,000 pesos for the newly started, that is, for the simple day of a teacher.
In June the tranches agreed upon in February had been brought forward (45.45 percent), so teachers received a floor of $55,000 pesos in June, $60,000 from July, and $64,000 from September 1, and now the guilds received the new official offer.
The sadopled by Jorge Kalinger, told Télam this afternoon that the union received the official proposal and “will evaluate it together with its bases”, and ratified along with the other teachers’ unions “the need for there to be no educational adjustments or cuts”, which that joint meetings be called throughout the country and that “the wage floor signed at the national level be respected.”
The joint union secretary and union organization, Marina Jaureguiberry – which brings together 70,000 members throughout the country – also argued that the union demanded from Education “the quarterly payment of retired teachers’ salaries.”
The Ministry of Education in charge of Jaime Perczyk had summoned last Monday for 4:30 p.m. this Wednesday the five teachers’ unions with national representation to reopen the parity, as confirmed by the secretary of Educational Policies of the CGT, Sergio Romero.
The also national secretary general of the Argentine Teachers Union (UDA) He then argued for the need to discuss a new percentage of the national wage increase.
Four teachers unions -UDA, Sadop. CEA and AMET– They analyzed this Tuesday at the CGT headquarters for several hours the position to be adopted this Wednesday in the educational portfolio, with the sole absence of the Confederation of Education Workers (Ctera), enrolled in the Central of Argentine Workers who lead Hugo Yasky and Roberto Baradel.
The Government convened this Wednesday the five unions that discuss the Federal Parity at the national level to evaluate the salary reality and the measures adopted by the Economy for the activity, in the context of article 10 of Law 26,075 on Educational Financing and according to the provisions in a timely manner by decree 457/07.
In Education, in addition to the Ctera and the UDA, the Argentine Union of Private Teachers (Sadop), the Confederation of Argentine Educators (CEA) and the Association of Technical Teaching Teachers (AMET) participated this Wednesday, the sources confirmed.
In february Lastly, the conventional agreement for teaching activity had been signed, which stipulated clauses for salary revision and monitoring and recovery of salaries.
Also then, the five teachers’ unions agreed on an annual joint venture of 45.45%, which included a revision clause, but towards the middle of the year negotiations were resumed and the advancement of the sections was agreed upon and a new meeting in September, which was held this Wednesday and will continue in the coming days in Education.
