Representatives of the Buenos Aires Teachers Unity Front (FUDB) and the Buenos Aires government reopened the wage parity in a meeting at the Ministry of Labor that lasted around two hours and in which, in principle, there was no concrete increase proposal. According to union and ministerial sources, At the meeting, the requirements of the unions were heard and the commitment to meet again this week was established.. The next meeting will be this Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. with the state unions.
From Suteba, one of the teachers unions that participated in the meeting, they indicated that the unions raised the need to “a salary readjustment” that allows “to be above inflation”. “Unfortunately the inflationary escalation does not stop and then there has to be a recomposition of the teacher’s salary so as not to lose purchasing power,” said the union leader.
The FUDB also required “advance quotas and increase the agreement”which contemplates an improvement of 40% to be paid thirteen times: March (20%, which has already taken effect), May (6%) and July (14%).
In this sense, the General Secretary of UDOCBA, Alexander Salcedoassured that “the government was inclined to establish the guidelines for the improvement of wages, let’s say, attending or in line with the inflationary issue.”
The request of the unions was that there be a definition this week “because if so it impacts the next salaries”, that is, those of May that are collected in June.
“We also raised other issues that have to do with other issues that we had already discussed in the last joint, such as a protection and reparation agreement, with parental leave, that other statutory regimes that already have it, and the application of the opinion of the Ministry of Economy to moderate a sector that is around approximately 10% of teachers who have Income Tax withholdings,” Salcedo said.
As stated, during the meeting there was no formal offer from the Buenos Aires authorities, “they only listened,” said one of the attendees, this was confirmed by sources from the Ministry of Labor to 0221.com.ar. Although they also noted that “they undertook to analyze the proposals.”
