The Minister of Education of the Nation, Jaime Perczyk, announced today that it was agreed with the teaching unions to advance the sections of the salary increase for teachers to reach a 60.8% increase in December, permanently maintaining the monitoring commission of the evolution of the salary with revision in September.
“We are part of a political space that believes that teacher salaries and those of all workers have to beat inflation. It is necessary to recover, repair, and improve and that implies political decisions and financing. More resources are needed so that more girls and boys have more days and hours of classes,” she said.
He added that “this is a government that is building gardens and technical schools, that grants scholarships, that re-invests 0.2% in technical education as established by law, that is recomposing the university salary, that Connect Equality recovered, which delivered more than eight million books to primary schools, 1,400,000 Progresar scholarships and scholarships for strategic careers”.
Perczyk led this Friday a new joint meeting with the five teachers’ unions with national representation that signed the minutes by which it was decided to advance the salary increase sections for teachers.
According to the agreement, the floor of the national minimum for teachers will be $55,000 from June 1; $60,000 as of July 1; $64,000 in September to reach $68,400 in December, which implies an increase of 60.8%.
In addition, an advance of FONID (National Teacher Incentive Fund) fees was agreed upon for the months of June, August, and September 2022 for the sum of: $4,524 from June 1 and $6,774 in total with the concept of additional teaching material and connectivity and $5,141 from July 1 with a total of $7,391 with the concept of additional teaching material and connectivity.
In September it will be $5,634 and a total of $7,884 for the concept of additional didactic material and connectivity and from December it will go to $6,173 with a total of $8,423 for the concept of additional didactic material and connectivity.
On behalf of the National Ministry of Education were present: the Secretary of Education, Silvina Gvirtz; the secretary of Educational Information and Evaluation, Germán Lodola; the general secretary of the Federal Council of Education (CFE), Marcelo Mango; the members of the Executive Committee of the CFE and the adviser of the Ministry of Labor, Alejandro Ferrari.
On behalf of the unions, representatives of Ctera, UDA, CEA, SADOP, AMET, Coordiep, Consudec, and CAIEP participated in the meeting.
Improvements and pending
As soon as the meeting ended, the Ctera clarified that with the extraordinary bonus for the month of December, “teachers will receive $70,200 in December; so the increase that month reaches 70.18% counting that extraordinary figure, ”said the union.
The union, which is led by Sonia Alesso, also reiterated the need for “an urgent solution to the salaries of national retired teachers, from the 11 provinces that charge for the Cajas de Nación. The Ministry of Education promised to manage a solution before the Ministry of Labor and Anses.
For his part, the head of the Argentine Teachers Union, Sergio Romero, said: “We always want more, we really fight so that there are no teachers below the poverty line. The national parity sets a minimum salary floor for teachers throughout the country, but, in addition, in those jurisdictions that exceed this agreed remuneration, they are encouraged to open negotiations due to the cascade effect it generates.
Likewise, Romero warned that “we are going to closely follow the inflationary evolution because we are not going to allow the salary to be pulverized by the permanent increase in prices and the revision clause in September and the permanent salary monitoring clause were expedited in the minutes. ”.
Does the “no” follow?
As will be recalled, the national negotiation always serves as a reference for the jurisdictional agreements of the provinces. In Santa Fe, until now the government has ruled out re-discussing salaries in parity. We will have to wait and see what happens with this new national agreement.
Prior to the national meeting, the Minister of Labor of Santa Fe, Juan Manuel Pusineri, was consulted again by El Litoral about the possibility of advancing the discussion in the province: “Here we must understand that the provincial joint venture was with a forecast higher than what was arranged in the national, and it is necessary to note that we reached May with a 30 percent increase since the beginning of the year. This is a situation that does not occur in other parity, “he said.
And he added: “Over there, they need to reopen (the discussion) or the advances that occurred in other joint negotiations such as the one in Buenos Aires, have to do with the fact that in those jurisdictions agreements were reached that were significantly lower than those that were achieved here in Santa Fe”.
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