The teaching union of Montevideo is carrying out a strike this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in response to the sanction of three teachers from the capital; Faced with this, the president of the Central Board of Directors (they code) of the National Administration of Public Education (Anep), Virginia Caceres, He accused the unions of making a “story of chaos” at each start of classes.
“Unfortunately at every beginning of the year for four years we have had the construction of the story of chaos; when it is not the hours in Secondary, or it is the teachers without work or the overcrowded groups,” said the leader in the television program, Arriba people.
Cáceres confirmed that the food of the students is guaranteed and that this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of strike, families will be able to pick up food from the institutes, between 11:30 and 1:00 p.m.
Faced with the demand for cuts in the education, The leader assured that it is no longer viable. “The story of the cut at this point falls under its own weight. When we talk about a cut, it is not real, there was a loss of salary for all public officials,” she said. In that sense, she clarified that teachers had a greater increase than that of public officials, with 6.47% last year.
The union’s measure
Two weeks ago the Association of Teachers of Uruguay (Ademu) resolved by a vote to carry out three days of rotating strike during the first week of classes in Montevideo. The measure was implemented by jurisdictions, and affects public schools in the western zone this Tuesday the 5th; at the center on Wednesday the 6th; and, finally, schools in the east will stop on Thursday the 7th. In all cases, the suspension of tasks will be for 24 hours.
The rotating stoppages They will also be accompanied by propaganda activities for “institutional violence” and a resource for the education authorities to reverse the sanctions against the three affected teachers.
The forceful measures respond to the sanction of three teachers from the capital: two of them, from the Diving school 35, among those who were suspended for 30 days with salary withholding for having read a union proclamation against the educational reform in March of last year; and a third teacher, from the school 407she was suspended for 10 days with withholding of wages.
For Ademu, the sanctions are an “attack on the union freedoms.” In addition, they questioned the deadlines for the administrative investigation against these two teachers – the event occurred almost a year ago – as well as the fact that they were notified of the sanction in January, when they were using their statutory license.
For its part, since Primary understand that the reading of the union proclamation was a violation of secularism of public education.
“Every citizen has the right to freedom of expression. In this case, they could not demonstrate it within the school premises because it was a proclamation that the teachers know was the personal demonstration, that the union can have, that it has the right to have, against the curricular reform,” the sanction had justified. Primary Director, Olga de las Heras.
Source: Ambito
