Highlights: Argentina: teachers in turn go on strike for the start of the school year. After the railway workers and nursing staff last week, it was the teachers who went on strike on Monday February 26. They are demanding in particular a salary increase and the restoration of the national education support fund abolished by Javier Milei. Thousands of strikers across the country, and hundreds of demonstrators in front of the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires. All were protesting against the non-renewal of aid for educational expenses that the national government provided to provinces.

The social situation continues to tense in Argentina. After the railway workers and nursing staff last week, it was the teachers who went on strike on Monday February 26, the day of…

Argentina: teachers in turn go on strike for the start of the school year

The social situation continues to tense in Argentina.

After the railway workers and nursing staff last week, it was the teachers who went on strike on Monday February 26, the day of the start of the school year.

They are demanding in particular a salary increase and the restoration of the national education support fund abolished by Javier Milei.

The Argentine national flag brandished in front of a line of police officers during a demonstration in front of the Congress building, in Buenos Aires, during a national strike against the government of Javier Milei, January 24, 2024. AFP - LUIS ROBAYO

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Buenos Aires,

Théo Conscience

Thousands of strikers across the country, and hundreds of demonstrators in front of the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, despite the pouring rain.

All were protesting against the non-renewal of aid for educational expenses that the national government provided to the country's provinces.

Sofia is a teacher in the suburbs of the Argentine capital.

“

Milei said he will not send money from the education support fund, which means a 10% drop in our salaries, and that he will not send funds dedicated to canteens either schools and other educational programs

,” she denounces.

If it is indeed the provinces which are responsible for education in Argentina, the “chainsaw” plan decreed by Javier Milei has resulted in drastic cuts in the transfer of resources from the national state to the provincial governments.

For Silvia, a retired teacher, this decision aggravates the already critical situation of the education system: “

What we see in schools is a generalized deterioration, not only of salaries, but also of canteens, infrastructure … Children learn in very precarious conditions.

Teachers, railway workers, healthcare workers, civil servants: social movements have multiplied in recent days in Argentina, and the hypothesis of a new general strike against Javier Milei's austerity shock is gaining momentum.

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Argentina: teachers in turn go on strike for the start of the school year

Argentina: teachers in turn go on strike for the start of the school year

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