Demonstrations began in the morning in different cities of this Andean country, where hundreds of teachers demanded the national government to implement the Basic Law on Intercultural Education (LOEI).
Salary equalization, repatriation of those laid off during the national emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a fair budget for the correct development of the sector were among the main requests.
Accompanied by red flags and posters with their demands, the teachers marched on the main streets of the various provincial capitals.
In the case of Quito, protesters gathered at the headquarters of the Ecuadorean Social Security Institute and from there advanced through the center led by directors of the National Union of Teachers (UNE).
“Here we are demanding precisely the terms we deserve,” said Isabel Vargas, president of UNE.
The union called for this action for today, when the six months given by the Constitutional Court to the government and the national parliament to determine the implementation of the law of international law, the law for which teachers fought with the famine strike, were completed. 32 days, from last July to last August.
Mobilization has been carried out in at least 17 of the 24 provinces of this South American region.
According to some UNE directors, this was the first of many moves planned against actions considered to be of a neoliberal nature, such as the failure to respect regulations approved by relevant bodies.
Discontent with the executive branch increased with the recent announcement by the National Administration of an increase in the salaries of the national police.
Other social organizations such as the High School Students’ Union, the Workers’ United Front and the Indigenous Nationalities Union support the teachers’ position.
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