These days, The union promotes a series of zonal strikes against “non-compliance” in the joint negotiations and in rejection of the law that declares education as an essential strategic serviceapproved in the first round in the Legislature, among other points. They also demand the restitution of lost union licenses and “the return of colleagues to their duties, to guarantee the functioning and transparency of the collegiate bodies.”
In that framework, This Wednesday, UnTER carried out a joint strike at the Viedma, Conesa, Valle Medio and Río Colorado sections, They gathered from 10 a.m. at the roundabout at the intersection of routes 250 and 251, in General Conesa. There they carried out a flyer to publicly denounce “Governor Alberto Weretilneck’s attack on the rights of all Rio Negro teachers.”
In response, the Rio Negro government called the state unions to negotiate joint negotiations next Monday, but avoided replicating the call to the teacher representatives, an anomaly considering that negotiations usually take place on the same day. The local management set the deactivation of force measures as a condition for negotiating.
Also in Patagonian lands, the Union of Education Workers of La Pampa (UTELPa) This Wednesday, a provincial strike was launched with a mobilization in Santa Rosa demanding a wage recomposition. The measure of force was voted unanimously last Friday during the CIII Extraordinary Congress of UTELPa, in which 16 sections participated. At that same meeting, the union demonstrated in solidarity with the workers of Banco Nación, whose managers decided to close 9 Pampean branches.
According to the general secretary of the association, Rosana Gugliarathe support for the strike was 95%. “We are asking for a salary according to the basic basket. We lost the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID) and we need to discuss some sum that compensates it in some way,” he commented.
At the same time, the leader told Plan B Noticias: “We are discussing working conditions for teachers and we are not unaware of the country’s context, in a national project that destroys the working class and curtails rights. But we also need to discuss with the employers, a salary recomposition in accordance with the demands.”
One day before the strike, the governor Sergio Ziliotto He had an exchange with teachers who came to protest during an official event in General Acha. There, the president said: “Rest assured that I will give everything I can. Government for the 360 thousand people of Pampa. We are seeing the short end of the stick. There are other places where there are also complaints. I am fighting with the national government because they are keeping the silver from all of us here. Do you have any doubts about that?”
Along those lines, Ziliotto commented that “the whole society is wrong, I understand perfectly” and that “it is everyone’s fight.” “We are going to do our best, as we always do. When you analyze to demonstrate what we have done, The salary that we allocate to public workers – teachers, police officers, doctors, nurses – takes much more in proportion than the previous year. We restrict other expenses because you are the priority,” he added. Finally, he indicated that the Nation “is keeping what is due” to La Pampa and anticipated that the Budget “is going to be worse than this year.”
Open joint ventures in Santa Fe, Mendoza and Entre Ríos
For its part, in Santa Fe the administration of Maximiliano Pullaro received this Wednesday, in two consecutive meetings, representatives of state workers and teachers, to whom he offered an increase of 12% for the last three months of the year.
The first meeting took place at the provincial Government House and was attended by the ministers of Government and Public Innovation, Fabian Bastia; of Economy, Pablo Olivares; and Labor, Employment and Social Security, Roald Bascolo; accompanied by the Secretary of Human Resources and Public Function of the Ministry of Economy, Malena Azario and the Secretary of Institutional Liaison, Julian Galdeano. While the guilds were part Marcelo Delfor of ATE and Jorge Molinarepresenting UPCN, among others present.
According to the management of the radical Pullaro, The offer consists of a 6% increase for October, 3% for November and 3% for December with a guaranteed minimum of $60,000. Regarding this, they also assured that “Every effort is made so that each month of the administration the efforts made by the Province are reflected in the workers’ pockets.”
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Olivares, meanwhile, said that ““In December of this year, the salaries of provincial workers will be 124.3% higher than in December 2023.”. Now, the ball is in the side of the unions. ATE already anticipated that this Thursday its Provincial Board of Directors will meet as before the plenary session of delegates next Tuesday, where the acceptance or not of the proposal will be defined. The next meeting was attended by the AMSAFE, SADOP, UDA and AMET teaching unions.
In MendozaMeanwhile, the government of Alfredo Cornejo offered education workers an increase to Basic 3.5%, 3% and 2.5% for the months of October, November and December respectively; and an increase of 5.5%, 5% and 4.5% on the Teaching Status for those months. From the Mendoza management, they indicated that, in relation to the Guaranteed Net Minimum Wage, “it was proposed that it amount to $540,000 for the month of October.” “In addition, it was proposed that this benefit covers teachers with 42 teaching hours included in article 6 inc. 1 and 2 of Law 6929,” they indicated.
The proposal was made before representatives of the Single Union of Education Workers (SUTE)which has already announced that it will bring the initiative to schools so that the bases can agree on an official position. The parties will meet again on October 18.
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At the same time, in Between Rivers the government that commands Rogelio Frigerio He presented his offer to the state last week, in a meeting in which the Secretary of Labor, Mariano Camoirano, participated; the chief of staff of the Ministry of Government and Labor, Abelardo Del Prado, and representatives of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. For the Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation, the deputy secretary, Carina Domínguez, and for the Association of State Workers (ATE), the general secretary, Oscar Muntes. The proposal was already rejected by ATE, which considered it “insufficient”, at the same time that it was declared in a state of Permanent Assembly.
Likewise, for the next meeting, which will be on October 14, the plenary session of general secretaries agreed to present a counterproposal for the joint meeting and request, among other points, a recovery of 6.55% in a single payment plus the 12% lost in December 2023; a remunerative bonus of 40,000 for active and retired people to receiveupdated to the CPI; code update 272; return of days deducted due to unemployment; updating of Family Allowances; and an instruction manual for Plant Passes.
Source: Ambito
