translated from Spanish: Governor must take responsibility and pay workers of education: members of Morena

Morelia, Michoacan.-in roundtable dialogue held with members of Morena Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla and Antonio Madriz Estrada, teachers and education workers called for the intervention of the State Congress to demand that the Executive of Michoacan pay off the debts of payroll, and complies with the payment of end-of-year performance to more than 32 thousand employees in the sector.
The Coordinator of the parliamentary group of Morena in the legislature LXXIV, and the President of the Education Commission, Alfredo Ramírez and Antonio Madriz, respectively, received in legislative palace to a Commission of teachers of basic education and the middle level higher, led by Victor Manuel Zavala Hurtado, Secretary general of the 18th Sección of the national coordinator of education workers (CNTE).
Alfredo Ramírez said that transparency of the Secretariat of public education (SEP) and the Legal Affairs Unit responded to the Executive of Michoacán which is “unfounded its claim to” return educational services to the Federation, in such a way that it remains current Convention of the national agreement for the modernization of basic education, and therefore: payroll payments to State workers in the sector remains the responsibility of the Government.
From November 18, said Antonio Madriz, a work table was installed at San Lazaro Adela Piña, President of the Education Committee in the Congress of the Union, and Ignacio Campos, Member of the programming Committee, budget and public account to federal level, with the purpose of tracing a route from work to achieve the federalization of education payroll.
He added that Morena in the Congress of the State and the lower House lawmakers will continue to work for the construction of a broad agreement between the federal and State Governments, to be inclusive of the Magisterium, to make the Federation is responsible for payroll in the education sector; “this would also allow federal resources for education are exercised with transparency and efficiency, since they are recurrently observed in audits”, added Ramirez Bedolla.
Morena members told the magisterial representation that they will support his proposal that becomes a deep control to the educational sector in the Government; Zavala Hurtado referred to this audit was requested formally the LXXIII legislature.
They added that the most recent report of the Federation’s top audit observed in Michoacan a likely breach more than 504 million pesos in the exercise of the Fund’s contributions to educational payroll and operating expenses in 2017, so it is imperative to oversee and transparent administration of educational policies in the State.
Teachers stated that the nonpayment of payroll and employee benefits by the Government would lead to an economic crisis and social instability, therefore urged to resolve this issue in brief; lawmakers and Union leaders agreed to trace a path of working together to strengthen efforts that enable the obligations with the education workers.

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