The Ministry of Education of the Nation summoned the teachers unions to the national parity to discuss the salaries of the sector. The first meeting, which will be chaired by the minister Jaime PerczykIt will be on Thursday, February 9.
The Confederation of Education Workers (Ctera), one of the five national unions participating in the negotiations, also announced the joint meeting.
Within this framework, Ctera affirmed that it will propose “a salary increase that exceeds inflation, with permanent review”, the “modification of the Income Tax” and “continue with the elaboration of the Collective Agreement of the teaching sector”.
In addition, he announced that he will ask “a new Educational Financing Law” and the “National Educational Budget”.
Although each district negotiates teacher salaries with local unions on its own, the national teacher parity sets a floor below which no teacher in the country can be paid and therefore sets the stage for the start of each parity discussion. local.
For its part, the Union of Education Workers (UTE), which represents the teachers of the city of Buenos Aires, announced that the Government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta called a meeting also for Thursday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m. .
The teachers’ union stated in a statement that they will demand from the city “an increase that exceeds inflation to continue the recovery of purchasing power that began in 2021, after 5 consecutive years in which teacher salaries did not exceed inflationary rates.”
