He Argentine government He described as “aberrant” the position of the teaching unions that called a 24-hour strike for next Monday, the second in 8 days, within the framework of their request for salary improvements.
“In a country where 6 out of 10 children are poor and the only chance they have to stop being poor in the future is by studying, (unemployment) seems aberrant, reprehensible and absolutely questionable to us”The presidential spokesperson explained this Thursday, Manuel Adorniin his usual press conference at the Pink House.
Teacher unions announced this Wednesday a new strike throughout the country for next Monday, which could be extended and jeopardize the start of the school year in several provinces.
“If the national government does not reflect, they force us to take measures, which will extend throughout the country”announced at a press conference Sergio Romeroholder of the Argentine Teachers Union (UDA)which has the support of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT)the largest union center in the country.
This call is added to the one experienced last Monday, carried out by the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA) and affected the city of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Currents, saint Louis, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Between rivers, Formosa y Mendoza at the beginning of the school year in those districts.
According to the latest official data available, the average salary – nationwide – of a primary school teacher with 10 years of seniority is about 230,000 pesos (about $274 at the current official exchange rate).
Adorni was consulted about the CGT’s support for this new strike and the criticism leveled by its leader, Pablo Moyanoto the Argentine president, the libertarian Javier Mileywhom he described as “a junk of international corporations.”
“It seems to me that it is part of the past, a union leadership that did a lot of damage to Argentina”commented the spokesperson, who reiterated that the strike seems “aberrant.”
Regarding the labor reform proposed by the Milei Executive in its megadecree of necessity and urgency (DNU), which is currently stopped by Justice, Adorni recalled that “it is a fundamental reform for everyone” and that he hopes it can advance in some way.
“Ask each of the 600,000 SMEs (small and medium-sized companies) in Argentina and an urgency is the labor reform, which the unions themselves have objected to, in this delirium where the unions that represent the workers are against the workers”, he asserted. EFE (I)
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