Press Bulletin Dirección de Prensa y Comunicaciones Leandro N. Alem 650, piso 11. C1001AA0 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Tel.: (011) 4310-6110/6114 Fax: (011) 4310-6107 – Teachers’ minimum salary will increase to ARS 5,345 as from March Carlos Tomada, Axel Kicillof and Alberto Sileoni, Ministers of Labour, Economy and Education respectively, met with the five trade unions with national representation and agreed to increase teachers’ minimum salary to ARS 5,345 in March and, through an increase in the incentive payment, to ARS 5,600 in August. During the meeting held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labour, Tomada maintained that “this agreement confirms and deepens the role of the National State, which doubles the Teacher Incentive Fund aimed directly to workers as a whole.” “This salary agreement is the reflection of long struggles. And it took years for the teachers’ trade union movement role to be acknowledged and strengthened,” the official underlined. Finally, the head of the Ministry of Labour pointed out: “I would like to recall Néstor Kirchner’s figure who was the one who promoted this salary agreement, and to acknowledge that the one who implemented it was Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.” The ministers agreed with the teachers’ trade union the minimum salary of primary school teachers working half day with no seniority. The agreement provides that the teachers’ minimum salary will increase to ARS 5,345 as from March 1 st this year. Moreover, the Teacher Incentive Fund will rise by 100% (from ARS 255 to ARS 510). Thus, the minimum salary will be ARS 5,600 as from August 1 st 2015. The meeting was attended by Jaime Perczyk, Nation’s Education Secretary; Daniel Iglesias, Coordination Secretary; Tomás Ibarra, General Secretary, Education Federal Council; Pablo Urquiza, Cabinet Chief, Ministry of Education; Marisa Díaz, Under-secretary of Educational Planning; Gabriel Brenner, Under-secretary of Educational Quality and Equity; Verónica Piovani, Director of the Teacher National Institute; Eduardo Aragundi, Director of the Technological Education National Institute; and Delia Méndez, Educational Management National Director. Press Bulletin Dirección de Prensa y Comunicaciones Leandro N. Alem 650, piso 11. C1001AA0 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Tel.: (011) 4310-6110/6114 Fax: (011) 4310-6107 – On behalf of the trade union sector, the agreement was signed by representatives of the Confederation of Argentine Education Workers (CTERA), the Argentine Union of Private Teachers (SADOP), the Technical Education Teachers’ Association (AMET), the Argentine Teachers’ Union (UDA) and the Confederation of Argentine Teachers (CEA). Please circulate this document. Buenos Aires, 27 February 2015. .