74% of Venezuelan teachers have left the classrooms
About 74% of Venezuelan teachers They have abandoned the classrooms due to low salaries and the crisis that the country’s educational institutions are going through.according to Carmen Teresa Márquez, president of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers.
Venezuelan teachers ask for fair salaries
At a press conference on Wednesday, November 13, he urged the Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, to resume the discussion of the collective contract for workers in that sector.
Márquez stated that The inability to acquire the basic food basket and the lack of social security are the main problems faced by Venezuelan teachers.
He called on the authorities to eradicate the salary bonuses of Venezuelan teachers, which have no impact on their social benefits.
“The teachers received a paltry bonus,” denounced the union leader.
He requested the Ministry of Education for an urgent salary adjustment, the recovery of social security, investing in school infrastructure and the implementation of an efficient School Feeding Program as measures to begin to solve the serious crisis in the education sector.
“Despite government promises to improve school infrastructure, schools continue in deplorable conditions,” said Márquez, citing random monitoring carried out by the union organization at 1,000 educational centers in the country.
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