MINEDUC receives more than 600 complaints against teachers who have suspended classes

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May 23, 2025May 23, 2025By Mario Vásquez
MINEDUC receives more than 600 complaints against teachers who have suspended classes

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Complaints have arrived at the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) through telephone line 1503 and the Institutional Website.

Teachers made a demonstration that came out of zone 18 and concludes in the 6th. Avenue and 4th. Calle, in front of the Departmental Government of Guatemala. SBIN GARCIA PHOTOGRAPH 12-05-25

Affiliates to the Union of Education Workers of Guatemala (Steg) have taken to the streets to demand a salary increase of 15%, now they are in permanent assembly. (PHOTO FREE PRESS: PL hemeroteca)

The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has received 680 complaints, you enter those that indicate that teachers have not reached schools to teach or have not fulfilled the established schedule.

The reports are from Monday 12 to Thursday, May 22, and arrived through telephone number 1503 and the Institutional Website.

According to the MINEDUC, the claims are grouped into three categories: Closed schools without justification, absent teachers without valid cause and teachers who report pressures and illegal charges by the leadership of the Union of Education Workers of Guatemala (Steg) so that they do not appear to their work or are absent to participate in mobilizations towards departmental headwaters and the city of Guatemala.

The Ministry indicates that it verifies and collates each complaint with the reports of the Departmental Directorates of Education or through the corresponding investigation.

Since May 19, STEG affiliates are in permanent assembly, which implies that teachers meet in a headquarters to define which strategies will follow; Therefore, they suspend classes. The call is indefinitely and will remain in force until its demands are placed, according to messages disseminated in social networks.

In this regard, the MINEDUC authorities have indicated that, according to their monitoring, about 16% of educational establishments closed to participate in the assembly.

The permanent assembly responds to the nonconformity of trade unionists for the 5% increase for teachers that the Ministry announced on April 30, and the increase of Q400 for administrative staff. In addition, they point out that the decision was “unilateral” and that it was not discussed in the negotiation of the new collective pact of working conditions of the teaching.

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