Teach unemployment Monday in rejection of the latest provincial government wage offer

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The Unit Faculty Front Unit in Buenos Aires today rejected the latest salary offer of the executive power of the province of Buenos Aires and announced a work stoppage for Monday, December 3.

"We have finished the year in conflict and we will start a conflict next year," said Roberto Baradel, of the Union of Unified Education Workers of the Province of Buenos Aires.

In other words: there will also be a strike on March 6, day of the beginning of the new 2019 school year. Year of election.

The government of Vidal wanted to close today the beginning of the new cycle in peace. But it failed.

He proposed to teachers an interannual increase for 2018 of 32%, 4 points for presenteeism and 1.7 points for didactic material, which would give an increase of nearly 38% and a bonus of 7,000 pesos. This was rejected.

He also proposed to agree to start the year 2019 with a rise of about 20% and to negotiate inflation – friendly offsets in July and November. This was rejected.

The unions said the government had tabled a lower wage offer. According to their estimates, it is only this year that they will lose between 13 and 15% of their purchasing power against 45% of inflation.

The unions grouped within the Buenos Aires front unite this year with 28 days of unemployment and surprising measures of power that have affected more or less 4.5 million children in this territory.

The impact is not even in all schools. The government badured that no measure of force exceeded 40% membership, while the unions maintained that the compliance rate still corresponded to about 90% of the 300,000 teachers.

That night after the eleventh meeting, the Buenos Aires Education Unit Front issued a statement in which he said: "Enough abuse". "We will not accept a declining pay structure."

According to the unions, the latest proposal made yesterday by the Vidal government is "a lack of respect".

"The bonus can only be considered a gift," he said.

Faced with this situation, the front of the teaching unit announced a shutdown next Monday. Then, 29 days of clbades will have been lost, mainly in the 12,000 public schools where the strike is the most intense.

In 4,000 other private schools, unemployment is not felt as strongly, even though the Argentine Union of Private Teachers is part of the Front Unit Unit.