Officials retake teachers strike in Chile and have appeal to ILO
The officials, who stopped their activities andthe Wednesday Thursday last week, today launched a new phase of lahuelga to demand a general wage increase of 8% and 10% for lower salaries, compared to 2.5% proposed by the government.
Employees also seek to achieve the establishment of minimum ethical unsueldo of 250,000 pesos ($ 460), and hires staff to laregularizacion, temporary, and fees, with no right to health coverage or welfare.
After the unsuccessful negotiations last Friday, National laAsociacion Fiscal Employees (Anef) Hoyda scheduled for meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Finance Working Yde forming the table negotiating.
Employees warned that unemployment in principle on Wednesday fijadohasta, can be extended until a settlement is reached with the Government, while complaints losusuarios happen before the stay public services, where Sehan established ethical shift.
Workers will travel tomorrow to Valparaiso delLegislativo headquarters, some 125 kilometers northwest of the capital, dondeharan a march and try to enlist the support of the parlamentariosante the possibility that the Government should send a draft before reajustesin reach an agreement.
Meanwhile, some 80,000 teachers of teaching by local authority sector, which totals about 1.5 million Students continually enjoys strike that began two weeks ago, after yesterday sumarannuevas conditions to stop the strike.
Teachers require payment of the historic debt originated in 1981 when public education was transferred desdeel Ministry of Education to municipalities, while payment of about estabapendiente bonds pledged by the Government paracompensar their low wages.
In addition, to lift the strike, the College of demandoayer teachers a bonus by the end of conflict of 800,000 pesos (about 1.500dolares) and not be discounted days not worked to loshuelguistas, as announced by the government days ago.
Guild President Jaime Gajardo, today introduced a recursoante the International Labor Organization (ILO), as sedesubregional Southern Cone is in Santiago, where seincluyen legal arguments with supporting his claim.
ILO rulings are not binding on States, Gajardo perosegun themselves constitute a history that must be taken account in trade relations.
That is why governments try to avoid the failures against dela ILO, he added.
Meanwhile, Education Minister Monica Jimenez, called pit parents to send students to school on basic eighth (14 years) to be placed on Tuesday and Wednesday to pruebaSimce (System for Measuring the Quality of Education).
More than 260,000 students at that level throughout the country have querealizar this week's test, which in principle not be afectadapor unemployment teachers, and participating in it are not linked to examinadoresque schools. EFE

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