They offer teachers 32% per year and a bonus of $ 7,000: rejection of unions and unemployment

Teachers' unions flatly rejected the 2% salary increase for next month and a non-remunerative bonus of 7,000 pesos on the part of the executive, and called on Monday next to a new strike, the 26th of the school year. .

The Buenos Aires government has offered teachers a 2% increase for December. In this way, the annual salary increase will be 32%. At the same time, the offer includes an "extraordinary" bonus of $ 7,000 for badets and $ 3,500 for retirees and contributory pensions.

A salary proposal for 2019 has also been put on the table: 20% in 6 installments with an inflation adjustment clause as of July 31 (ie the percentage of the increase or the CPI Indec will be paid at this time of the year) a review clause in November (this involves a call for joint meetings and negotiations with the unions).

"Vergüenza" was the expression used by the leaders of the Buenos Aires Teachers 'Trade Union Front (FUDB) to define the government' s offer.

"Let's hope we finish the year with 15 percentage points below inflation," they warned at the end of the long meeting with the ministers. In this context, the secretary general of Suteba, Roberto Baradel, anticipated that "if the school year ends well, with conflict, 2019 will start with conflict".

"We are asking the governor, Maria Eugenia Vidal, to stop lying to teachers and the community: this year, our salary has been reduced and it is an objective fact." Inflationary index the increase that he has granted, "pointed out the leader.

The February president, Mirta Petrocini, said that "as throughout the year, there was no negotiation." It was a notice to inform us of a decision the governor had already made. "

The teacher pointed out that the increase of 2% for December "implies an increase of 108 basic pesos and 205 pesos on the pocket wage.This is a proposal that does not you do not have to be qualified, "he said.

The Federation of Educators has published on the networks a cable from a news agency from the beginning of the year entitled "Vidal to Teachers: we guarantee that they will not lose with inflation" , where the governor said that "beyond the union leaders want to make politics with this, I will keep his word." Downstairs, the union recalled that the previous day's joint meeting was on the 20th of April. year, there were 11 salary offers and that "the loss of salary will be about 15%".

When this publication was published, the government had already submitted its proposal to the teachers, but the joint meeting had been extended for an hour and a half.

Thus, 2018 is about to become the first year – since the adoption of the provincial law on parity in education in 2006 – which will end without the signing of an agreement between the Provincial executive and trade unions.

Finally, at the doors of the Ministry of Economy, the head of Udocba, Miguel Diaz, asked the "comrades of the state who do not accept this proposal, because we are therefore the teachers, we are here, we should try to defeat inflation ". The reference to UPCN was clear, given that the government had made the same offer to state employees and that Ate had never signed the contract.