The Guatemalan Education Workers Union (STEG) published on its social networks that the Ministry of Education (Mineduc) is placed again, this time due to a collective conflict of an economic-social nature, which was presented in the Court of First Instance for Labor Misdemeanors of the department of Guatemala.
According to the publication, the lawsuit filed last April 22 against the State of Guatemala and the Ministry of Education.
The legal action occurs one day after the ministry reported that the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals for Labor and Social Security confirmed a resolution favorable to Mineduc, which voided the preventions and the location derived from a collective conflict promoted by an ad hoc committee of the Coalition of Workers of the Ministry of Education of Guatemala last January.
The resolution indicates that the conflict could not continue because the direct route had not been exhausted and that the negotiation of the collective agreement is ongoing with the STEG, which is led by Joviel Acevedo.
On April 22, Francisco Cabrera, Vice Minister of Education, indicated that, with the lifting of the summons by the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals for Labor and Social Security, the ministry could continue with the dismissal process of at least 140 workers that they had administrative sanctions for suspending classes during the permanent assembly that the Steg promoted in 2025 and that kept the children away from the classrooms for about 50 days.
Regarding the new location, Cabrera indicated that the Mineduc you have not received any notification, while Julio Saavedra, Attorney General of the Nation, indicated that he has not been informed about this and that, if it occurs, the legal route to follow in said process would be established.