Iguala, Guerrero - The leader of the State Coordinator of Education Workers in Guerrero (CETEG), Manuel Rodríguez Gálvez, confirmed that state education authorities withheld the salary of 331 teachers in the Mountain region and of the 82 commissioners who make up the collective state leadership of the dissident teachers.
Despite this retaliation, he said that the dissident teachers will continue mobilizing in order to demand the dissolution of powers in the state, given the atmosphere of lawlessness and insecurity prevailing in the state and the lack of political will by Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero and local [state] representatives to resolve conflicts.
The leader of the Upper Mountain Political Committee of dissident teachers noted that the march that will be held on Wednesday May 1 will define the direction of the protest movement that emerged after rejection of the education reform [proposed by the dissident teachers] and that has become the first articulate expression to repudiate the initiatives promoted by the federal government.
The leader of the Upper Mountain Political Committee of dissident teachers noted that the march that will be held on Wednesday May 1 will define the direction of the protest movement that emerged after rejection of the education reform [proposed by the dissident teachers] and that has become the first articulate expression to repudiate the initiatives promoted by the federal government.
This afternoon in the vicinity of the sit-in maintained by the striking teachers outside the headquarters of the CETEG..., Proceso interviewed the teacher Manuel Rodríguez, who has become the new voice of the dissident teachers given the virtual hunt unleashed by police agents acting on orders from Governor Aguirre to capture the leaders of the teachers.
In this regard, Rodríguez said that the education authorities made good their threat of withholding wages of CETEG teacher-members, but downplayed the fact by arguing that this situation does not affect the mood of the strikers, as the issue of wages is going to be resolved at the federal level, since at the state level there are no channels for dialogue.
However, he warned that if the state government decides to replace the strikers with new teaching personnel, the situation is going to get complicated because the parents are not going to allow it, he asserted.
On Monday, April 29, the State Education Secretary, Silvia Romero Suárez, announced that he was not going to pay about 900 CETEG teachers for the two months of the work stoppage, and that he would hire about 800 teachers to prevent at least 30,000 elementary level students from losing the school year.
On Monday, April 29, the State Education Secretary, Silvia Romero Suárez, announced that he was not going to pay about 900 CETEG teachers for the two months of the work stoppage, and that he would hire about 800 teachers to prevent at least 30,000 elementary level students from losing the school year.
Despite the salary deductions, the strikers, mostly women, celebrated Children's Day with the children of teachers. At least a dozen children, accompanied by their parents, held a 'mini-march' near the encampment amid balloons, children's songs, games, gifts, cake, flavored ices and slogans such as "decent children support their teachers".
With members of the dissident teachers' Political Committee, CETEG leader Minervino Morán, who faces arrest, went to the celebration of Children's Day, which highlighted the strength of the children of the striking teachers, children who have had to leave their home and daily activities to accompany their parents in the demonstrations against the federal government reforms. Spanish original