Chile: Historic teachers' strike continues
Mobilization carried forward by the teachers' union moves into its sixth week. The decision came after a proposal of the government and the leader of the Teachers College, Mario Aguilar, raised it was time to retreat. Thus unemployment constitutes one of the longest strikes that the union has made in its history, one that responds primarily to the strong commitment that has allowed teachers to have postcards and teachers all gathered in Santiago Chile with 50 thousand people in the streets feature, Similar call in Valparaiso marching 30 thousand toward Congress. Strengthened environment with various creative expressions in protest and great social support.
teachers' strike, radiograph of the crisis in education market
The phenomena of the recent history of our country have settled in the massive insurgency social sectors linked to education, They include students during the 2006 – 2011, the teachers 2015 and the university and secondary last year amid wave of feminist educational establishments took against sexism in education. This panorama under a common denominator: the educational market model. On the one hand being a lucrative business to indebt the student body, while from the dictatorship until now it comes a systematic process of deteriorating working conditions and teachers. It is at this point that the current strike has certain peculiarities in their demands were not merely confined to wage issues, a statement which ascribes the double assessment, teaching career, Labor and historical debt burden. At the same time, These are accompanied by the entrance scene of párvulo educators and differential demanding recognition of their mentions.
Mobilization finds its outbreak at a time that Piñera trying to act with a series of measures on education: repressive policies made them secundaries, schooling párvulo teaching and curriculum change that leaves out the obligatory history and ed. Physics in secondary education. A situation that left little room to lay agreements with teachers, therefore government policy was to bet wear. Unfruitful this policy, the government should sit after 4 weeks of paralysis, It is rejected his proposal in a national consultation. In parallel, and the reactions of secondary school intakes were against the repressive policies of the State. All this leads to Piñera has more than 70% disapprovingly.
Possibilities, limits and proposals
The social diagram last month marked the teacher mobilization and the presence of them in the streets secundaries, reactions facing the offensive to reaffirm the model by the government. This situation points that are necessary to remark, on the one hand the main university federations heads the Frente Amplio, same sector who heads the College of Teachers, They motorize not bet a great movement in defense of public education that would guarantee victory teacher. He tuned, the leadership of the Teachers raises mobilization refold, contrary to this position most continue mobilized vote.
Some findings in the middle of the process, is that although the request expressed by the guild pressing demands, the leadership did not go into priorities that bring together all teachers, giving space to the government. The counterpoint to this notion was the mobilizing will expressed the possibility of amplifying a voice once again questioned the educational model, thus increasing their opposition to government measures such as the centrality of social unrest and demands transiting the country. Dilemma that will definitely bring a big debate in the forefront mobilized, for now the need for creating alternatives within the union and political level will be a new generation engine for contesting in the streets.
Since the anti-capitalist movement, section of the International Socialist League, We will continue to drive the need for an educational unit to confront the government and teachers struggle to succeed.
J.A. - Anti-Capitalist Movement
