The Teacher Unity Front met with the government and requested a readjustment of the salary agreement / Photo: File.
Union representatives of the Teaching Unity Front (FUDB) held a meeting on Tuesday with authorities from the Buenos Aires Government, who were asked to an “urgent” readjustment of the salary agreement signed last February due to rising inflation.
In statements made to Télam after the meeting, which took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor on streets 7 and 39, the general secretary of Suteba, Roberto Baradel, explained that the teachers asked the members of the Executive Branch to ” we urgently need a readjustment of the salary agreement due to the inflationary escalation”.
“We need the recomposition to be fast” Roberto Baradel, Suteba
“We ask that advance to May the sections scheduled for June, an increase in March that puts us above inflation and an increase for July. We prefer not to talk about percentages, because we are talking, but we do point out that this week we will meet again because there is a need for it to be quick,” said the union leader.
In this context, he valued the attitude of the government of Axel Kicillof to receive the unions to open the negotiation.
“This Executive always complies with the commitments” and added that they hope that the answer “will be quick” because “the workers cannot lose more purchasing power”.
Baradel also recounted that the Buenos Aires authorities were required to “work to protect teachers in situations of violence”, an agreement that is paralyzed by a body of the Constitution and considered that this “can’t wait any longer“.
Buenos Aires teachers demand an agreement that puts them above inflation / Photo: File.
The state ones too
The Buenos Aires Government will receive this Wednesday afternoon unions that represent state workers included in the scope of Law 10,430 on public employment.
The reopening of the negotiations was requested by note both by the Teaching Unity Front (FUDB) and by the state unions of the Union of Civilian Personnel of the Nation (UPCN), the Association of State Workers (ATE) and the Federation of State and Private Guilds of the Province (Fegeppba).
In February, the Government and the unions agreed to an average increase in three tranches of 20% in March6% in May and 14% in July (totaling 40% in the first seven months of the year).
This included a review clause in May, and the commitment of the provincial Executive to reopen negotiations in August.
