Following the call for a ten-day strike in the CAV social initiative centers, the main employers’ organization in the sector has regretted the centers’ “strike commitment” and expressed concern about the impact the strikes could have on the registration campaign.
Kristau Eskolathe main employer of social initiative centers in Euskadi, has assured this “maintains” his bet and will for agreeing a “viable and realistic” agreement to guarantee the preservation of the network school that employs more than 7,000 workers, after the unions declared ten new strike days and demanded a new agreement.
In a statement, Kristau Eskola assured that while she respects this, she regrets the commitment to the strike and has appealed to “responsibility” of the meeting centers (ELA, Steilas, CC. OO., LAB and UGT). continue negotiating an agreement between the parties. He also states that the unions’ accusations of failure to convene a negotiating table are untrue since, as he recalled, at the last meeting it was Kristau Eskola who proposed holding future working meetings to make progress keep booking.
He also regretted that, also in the field of education, the trade union centers decided to join the scene of strikes and demonstrations that “tactically are becoming an integral part of the reality of Euskadi.” ‘Transferring their work demands to the classrooms has been successful a negative effect on the right to education of students and creates more difficulties for families in practicing reconciliation,” he added.
In this sense, she has expressed her concern about the “affection” which adds the draft of the planned strike calendar, in which “the interests of the strikers take precedence over those of the students and their families.” In this sense, he recalled that the dates of the strikes will coincide with the period of the strikes registration campaign in view of the new school year 2024-2025″. These new calls “add concern“to the network of Kristau Eskola schools and their staff, as the entire education system” suffers continued decline in registrationsa consequence of the low birth rate”.
According to their data, enrollment in early childhood education has fallen since 2012, which last year represented a loss of more than 20,000 enrollments in recent years.
Finally, employers consider the participation of the Ministry of Education of the Basque Government important in this circumstance of labor conflict, especially in view of the new Basque Education Law, recently approved, which should be developed with the participation of everyone. Also considering the ‘worrying’ situation that the decline in enrollments entails, especially in the education sector.
Kristau Eskola unites 47% of the educational network with 122 centers spread across Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, with a workforce of more than 7,000 employees. It currently serves 110,000 students.
Source: EITB
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