As he said Scopeby the hand of the deceleration of inflation, The provinces will seek in principle to reach four -monthly or semiannual agreements, Unlike what happened in 2024, when the understandings were for two or three months.
However, beyond a Consumer Price Index (CPI) in fall, The electoral context will play its own party in the districts, which will seek to avoid the social conflict and reach the legislative with the small payment in order.
To this scenario is also added the lack of budget nationwide, one of the main claims of the provincial chiefs towards the Casa Rosada. Although in the Ministry of Economy an annual inflation of 18.3% anticipates, the market believes that the number will be closer to 30% than to the official 20%.
The first private projections realize that the IPC rise was between 2% and 2.5% in January, a lower CPA compared to December, when the index marked 2.7%.
In parallel, the National Government still did not give indications about the future of the National Teaching Parity, which serves as a framework for the unions of various provinces to establish the salary floors.
Province of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe inaugurate parity 2025
In the province of Buenos Aires, the administration of Axel Kicillof It will activate the peers with the teaching and state guilds on Wednesday. As usual, the discussion will be made in Buenos Aires Minister of Labor and will be distributed in two shifts. The first will be for education workers, while from 12:30 he will touch their pairs of public function.
From both sectors they had been claiming the management of Kicillof the opening of the negotiations. In fact, at the beginning of the year, the Bonaerense Teaching Unit Front (FUDB) sent a note to the provincial government, highlighting “The situation of economic adjustment, tariffs and salary cuts promoted by the policies of the national government, as well as the deregulation that harms the salaries of the workers of the sector.”
The same did last week the State Workers Association (ATE)which requested the “immediate reopening of the peers in the provincial state.”
Most guilds are Kicillof allies and consider that the main focus of conflict is currently with Javier Milei and the adjustment policies implemented from Nation. Therefore, they will try to balance between the need to recover purchasing power and the alliance with the governor.
At par, The binding president for the country (UP) did not make the legislature approve his 2025 and indebted budget projects, Therefore, if there is no agreement, it will have funds discretionally.
Santa Fe, For its part, it will also open the 2025 model rounds this week. On a double day, the government of Maximiliano Pullaro It will meet from 8:15 with ATE and the Nation Civil Personnel Union (UPCN) and from 12 with the Association of the Magisterium of Santa Fe (AMSAFE), the Argentine Union of Private Teachers (SADOP) and the Union and the Union and the Union Argentine teacher (UDA).
According to what he reported Scopethe Minister of Provincial Education, José Goityanticipated last week that they will try to make the agreements “as long as possible” and that this first rise apply until the middle of the year. “The idea is to seek agreements that give us predictability and continuity, trying to reach quarterly agreements or, if possible, until the middle of the year,” The Santa Fe official mentioned.
On January 24, Santa Fe management had already received union representatives with the aim of initiating conversations formally. On the occasion, the teachers complained because “2024 was marked by decisions of the provincial government that generated a deep discomfort among teachers.”
Among them, they highlighted the retirement reform, “which truncated the retirement plans of many and many education workers.” “With the new regulations, retirees began to receive the joint increases with a delay of 60 days, and the obligation to make ‘solidarity contributions’ were imposed despite having contributed their entire working life to the retirement box,” protested .
Similar scenario will be given in Jujuywhere radical management Carlos Sadir will receive the teaching unions on February 6 and the state, the 12th will do the administration of Alfredo Cornejo In Mendoza, which will receive the Single Union of Education Workers (SUTE) on Wednesday 5 with the aim of guaranteeing the start of classes in a timely manner. His Minister of Economy, Víctor Fayad, anticipated that they will seek to seal a semiannual or four -monthly agreement.
Pulseada open in Salta and Río Negro
Saltaon the other hand, he advanced to the other provinces and inaugurated the conversations at the beginning of the month. Last week, at a new meeting between the parties, the units rejected the proposal of the management of Gustavo Sáenz.
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It consisted of a 4% rise to pay in two sections: 2% in March and 2% in June. After the meeting, ATE Salta considered the offer “insufficient”. His general secretary, Mabel Álvarez, explained: “Public Administration workers lost almost 40 points of purchasing power in 2024. We demand a real salary recomposition that covers the basic basket.” The parties will see each other again on Tuesday.
In Patagonian lands, Río Negro also opened the negotiations. Last week, he held a new encounter with union representatives. Without offer on the table, the actors seek to close the 2024 discussion to start the debate for this year.
Source: Ambito
