Teachers continue with a firm voice in their claim against Nicolás Maduro for salary claims.
This time Elsa Castillo, a member of the Venezuelan Federation of TeachersI send a message to Maduro denouncing the low salaries and the absence of benefits that the union has been denouncing for years.
“Mr. Nicolás Maduro, I apologize if a teacher ever hit you because, I think, because of your age, it was when the teachers hit the students with the ruler. But I think they should have hit you harder because you kind of didn’t learn. It would have taken away that resentment he has against the country’s professionals,” Castillo refuted during a teachers’ protest in Caracas.
“Maduro, we are not to blame if you did not want to study because here, in Venezuela, everyone who wanted to studied even at night schools and got their degrees,” he added.
The educator blamed Chavismo for having deteriorated the quality of public education since her arrival in government.
“You get off the mule for the children and grandchildren of the plugged in and put them in the big schools, but the little boy from the neighborhood, the son of Juan albañil, has to have a poor quality education,” he said.
He stressed that the union is tired of begging for their fair wage claims.
“We don’t get it, Maduro. The education of the poor does not have to be a poor education », he concluded amid the applause of his classmates.
Teachers in wage claim
It is noteworthy that, in the last month, a nationwide protest has been triggered by the teachers’ union. This in claim to the precarious salaries and the payment of the vacation bonus which, they assure, was not paid in full or is insufficient.
The forceful message of a teacher to Maduro: “We are not to blame if you did not feel like studying.” #BonoVacacionalYRecreacionalNow pic.twitter.com/2QMtJkIm3y
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