The Ademys teachers’ union organized a strike for Monday morning in the city of Buenos Aires to demand “salary recomposition” and accused the Buenos Aires government of having “a policy of attacking and persecuting teachers.”
“The government of Rodríguez Larreta, together with his education minister (Soledad) Acuña, naturalize working two and even three positions so that teaching can make ends meet,” the union said in a statement, announcing the strike for the the day school starts after winter break.
Ademys also scheduled a concentration at 11:30 in front of the Buenos Aires Government Headquarters. The union maintained that “in the face of an economic crisis that is deepening and that continues to pulverize our salaries, the Government (from Buenos Aires) denies us a real salary recomposition” and, it added, “develops a policy of attack and persecution of teachers.”
Given this measure, Larreta repeated his manual against teachers: minimize the claim of teachers. “Tomorrow a minority group wants to punish some students so that they cannot go to school because of this measure. They will not be able to,” he stated, via Twitter, accusing them of being a “politicized group”:
In the message, the presidential candidate of Together for Change (JxC) from Buenos Aires considered that this Monday “the boys will be in the classroom learning, building their future, together with the majority of teachers committed and dedicated to ensuring that all Argentines receive the education they need to build a better life” and highlighted that in the city of Buenos Aires “it will be the third consecutive year in which all together we have achieved 192 days of classes”.
Minister Acuña took up Larreta’s words and emphasized on Twitter that “education cannot stop.”
From Ademys they warned that teachers “closed the first half of the year with the announcement of the extortionate and anti-union bonus, which tries to violate the right to stop and make use of any license.”
And they accused the JxC candidates that “in campaign mode they say they prioritize education and yet in schools we are perfectly aware of the emptying of education, the lack of vacancies, the terrible infrastructure conditions with schools that cannot withstand the most basic inclement weather.”
