The City Legislature passed a ruling on the bill that seeks to replace the Teacher Classification boards, after a tense debate in which teachers, who are on a strike against the bill, tried to enter the building. Security inside the building had to be tightened.
City teachers strike for the second day to reject the measure backed by Mayor Mauricio Macri’s administration.
The debate of lawmakers is held “behind close doors” and without teachers delegates.
Earlier today, teachers marched down Avenida de Mayo down to City Hall to repeal the measure and now protest in front of the Legislature.
City Education Minister, Esteban Bullrich, declared this morning that at all city schools that went on strike, impeding normal school timetables, will have to extend their school year until December 23.
“Classes will be extended until December 23 in the schools that have lost five days of school due to the strikes. We had already said that strike days were to be recuperated,” the city education minister informed.
The UTE-CTERA teachers’ union were holding a new strike in Buenos Aires City today in aid of getting legislators of the Education commission and Labour Legislation to relook at the project put forward by Macri that would replace the Classification Boards.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald