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About 2.5 million school students will return to class in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province today after 17 days of teachers’ strikes over pay.
The teachers’ union said on Saturday that it had reached agreement on a 30 per cent rise.
Teachers had previously rejected another offer from the government as insufficient to offset rising inflation, which ran at 25-30 per cent last year.
Out of 826,500 teachers in the province, 71 per cent work in public education.
The teacher’s pay dispute, which comes up at the start of every school year, was given greater significance this year by spiraling inflation.
The cost of living increased by 7.2 per cent in the first quarter after a sharp 18 per cent devaluation of the peso in January.
