At its height it left 30,000 students without classes and lasted from early September to late November 2023, almost three months.
On September 4,[1] 2023 teachers' union of Atacama Region in Chile decided to go on strike over complains about the financing and infrastructure of the newly established Local Public Education Service (Spanish: Servicio Local de Educación or SLEP).
[2] On November 9, following negotiations with the Ministry of Education the teachers' union of Atacama decided to end the strike [1] Minister of education Nicolás Cataldo visited a series of localities of Atacama Region on November 13 to meet teachers which was of the demands agreed upon.
[1] However, on November 17 teachers declared that the strike would continue as the Ministry of Education had not fulfilled all the points of the previous agreements.
[1] Finally, the teachers' union decided to end the strike on November 20 with the return to classes occurring next few days.