Significance: The ‘accord’ does not definitively resolve the dispute. The government made a significant climb-down by repealing the ‘decreto de esencialidad’, a recently approved decree declaring education an essential public service and rendering strike action illegal. This had acted like a red rag to a bull, with the teachers’ unions intensifying strike action in response. The leaders of Uruguay’s umbrella workers’ union, Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores – Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (Pit-Cnt), Fernando Pereira and Marcelo Abdala, and representatives of some teachers’ unions present at the meeting also signed the accord committing to starting classes again today (1 September). But there was no agreement over salary increases, just on a renewal of talks between the labour & social security ministry, led by Ernesto Murro, and the teachers’ unions.
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