The joint negotiations of the teacher unions begin

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The first national joint teacher meeting will take place this Thursday, convened by the Ministry of Education of the Nation, confirmed official sources.

The meeting, which will be chaired by Minister Jaime Perczyk, It will take place in the afternoon at Palacio Sarmiento, located at Pizzurno 935 in this capital, and the participation of the five national teacher unions has been confirmed.

For her part, the Confederation of Education Workers (Ctera) announced that he will request a “salary increase that exceeds inflation, with permanent review”the “modification of the Income Tax” and “continue with the elaboration of the Collective Agreement of the teaching sector”.

Through Twitter, from Ctera they indicated that they will also ask for “a new Educational Financing Law” and for the “National Educational Budget”.

📌 National Teacher Parity.
📌 February 9.
📌 From CTERA we propose 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/5dp82dFbqi

— CTERA (@cteracta) February 3, 2023

Salary table in CABA

For her part, the Education Workers Union (UTE), which represents the teachers of the city of Buenos Aires, announced that the government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta also called a meeting for this Thursday afternoon.

The Buenos Aires union stated in a statement that they will demand from the city “an increase that exceeds inflation to continue the recovery of purchasing power that began in 2021, after 5 consecutive years in which teacher salaries did not exceed inflationary rates.”

Meanwhile, since Ademys A mobilization was announced for 2:00 p.m. in front of the door of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Education, located at Perette and Calle 10, in Barrio Carlos Mugica de la Villa 31 de Retiro.

Mariana Scayola, Secretary General of Ademysstated that the union “cannot continue naturalizing that we have to work between two and three shifts to be able to make ends meet, continue with the class tasks in our homes while we take care of our children and that on top of that we have black sums in our wages.”

“Today, from 8 o’clock, the first summons to the witnesses in the trial that (the Minister of Education of the City), Soledad Acuña, and (the head of the Buenos Aires Government) Horacio Rodríguez Larreta are doing to our comrade Trade Union Secretary Jorge Adaro, to try to take away his privileges. The date is not accidental, it is the beginning of the salary discussion. The adjustment does not go without attacking our organization, which is always on a fighting footing. The Government, with this trial, attacks the right of teachers to protest, to claim,” Scayola said in a statement.