Meetings will be held at noon in Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz. In the capital of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, the protests will take place in front of the education delegations, while in the capital Euskadi they will take place in front of the vice-rector’s office.
The teaching and research staff of the UPV/EHU are mobilizing in a strike this Wednesday to denounce the epidemic insecurityconvened by the ELA, LAB, CCOO and Steilas trade unions.
To do this, they will hold meetings in Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz at 12 noon. In the capital of Biscay (Gran Vía, 85) and Gipuzkoa (Calle Andia, 13), the protests will take place in front of the educational delegations, while in the capital Euskadi it will take place in front of the vice-rector’s office (Comandante Izarduy, 2). In the latter case, a human chain is then created to the Education Delegation.
In addition, there will be information pickets on the three CAV campuses from 8 a.m.
Representatives of the four trade union centers recall that they had already started this course with ‘complaints’ about the ‘insecurity’ of their working conditions and calls for defend their rightsthe unions denounced “the interested interpretation and application”, by the Rector’s team, of the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), as it “has had a direct impact on the new contracts of the alternative educationwhich in most cases will from now on take place part-time and with uncertain salaries.
At this point, the convening unions have emphasized this “deterioration” of their working conditions “It is not just a matter of now, which only affects substitute teaching staff, but it is something that has affected us for a long time and which affects all teaching and research staff (PDI).”
According to him, this deterioration is the result “structural reasons” and is mainly related to ‘the lack of adequate financing of the Basque Public University”.
They have also reported delays of weeks and even months in hiring substitute teaching staff or that the unsubstituted workload “falls on the rest of the teaching staff or forces them to join groups at the expense of the quality of education. “
On the other hand, and as in other sectors of the public sector, the four unions have denounced that UPV/EHU workers have seen the value of their salaries decline ‘year on year’ as the salary increases of the recent years ‘have not resulted in any compensation for the increase in the cost of living.
Source: EITB
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