Teachers have not eaten for 25 days to demand respect for the approval and validity of the reforms to the Organic Law of Intercultural Education (LOEI).
This Thursday, August 5, it was 25 days since the teachers of the National Union of Educators (UNE) began the hunger strike in 12 provinces of the country. In Quito, outside the National Assembly, its strength is focused on getting the Constitutional Court to rule in favor of the Law and not declare its unconstitutionality.
“The budget does exist, what there is not is political will,” said one of the relatives who joined this measure in Sucumbíos. The arguments with which they try to withdraw some of the approved reforms (such as the increase to $ 1,076 in their salary) is that there is no financing to comply with the Law.
“In your hands, Constitutional Court, is the lives of the more than 80 teachers,” added another teacher. Some have had to be transferred to an emergency due to their poor health. While others remain until the last consequences.
They said they will take other measures if the Government and the Constitutional Court continue to “deaf ears” to their claims. They have questioned that it took nine days for the Court to suspend the application of the LOEI, but now there are 25 days without ruling on the matter.
Various assembly members, ministers of state, union leaders and others have voiced their support for the teachers’ cause.
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