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“There is no agreement. It is a proposal that we are going to analyze in the Congress on Friday”, marked the general secretary of CTERA and deputy general secretary of UTE, Edward Lopezin dialogue with Télam.
“The remarkable thing is that this increase is for a first tranche, for a first six-monthly offer that will be reviewed again in September. It is not for the whole year. The government’s offer is for the first semester,” said Sergio Romero, secretary general of the UDA.
The Minister of Education of the Nation, Jaime Perczyk, said today that “on March 2 in Argentina there will be 15 million children in school”, when informing about the proposal of more than 45% increase raised to the unions teachers in the negotiations for parity salary.
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“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 said.
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.
“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.”
He added that the Government is recovering the 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.