ELA, LAB and Steilas have emphasized the “very extensive monitoring” of the strike and said they will continue “fighting for another university model with decent working conditions.” Moreover, they have called for a strike on March 12.
Labor unions ELA, LAB and Steilas have emphasized the “very extensive follow-up” of the strike among the teaching and research staff of the UPV/EHU to demand an improvement in their working conditions.
This Wednesday was the second strike day of this group and was accompanied by mobilizations in the three capitals of the CAV.
In a statement, these unions said that although the incidence varied between centres, it was “very clear” in all centres. The centers have been open but academic activity “has been very sparse” and they have specified that technical, management, administration and services staff, a quarter of the workforce, had not been called to strike.
The unions have indicated that, for example, in the faculties of Labor Relations, Education and Sports, Economics and Business Administration of Gasteiz, Social Sciences and Communication, Psychology, Education, Philosophy and Anthropology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Technology and Law, “there have hardly been any lessons. ” The same applied to the participation of professor-researchers from the UPV/EHU in the mobilizations that took place Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz has been ‘very high’.
With the call for a strike, as they have specified, they have put on the table a list of demands, both to the management of the UPV/EHU and to the Ministry of Education of the Basque Government, and in that list the problem of replacement teaching staff were “essential” due to the severity of the situation insecurity that these college professors are suffering.”
However, the unions have denounced that there is no “no step forward to get to the root of the problem, limiting themselves to patching up the negative consequences of the decisions they made.
These unions have explained that they have been suffering for years from “a deterioration in working conditions” and wanted to say “enough is enough” because “the workload has increased in recent years” and they predict that it will increase with the new Jardun system. organizing the education that will start next year.
Moreover, they have denounced that “bureaucraticization remains stifling in many procedures”, that the “instability” of the workforce is “very high” and furthermore “that they systematically discriminate against the most unstable groups, making the situation even worse” .
As they have stated, they will continue “to fight for a different university model, at the service of Basque society, where the working conditions of workers are decent.” For this reason, in addition to Thursday’s strike, the 12 March They call on teaching and research staff and the rest of the UPV/EHU employees to join the public sector strike.
For its part, the group that brings together deputy teaching and research staff, EHUko Prekarioen coordinatoralso highlighted in a statement the “extensive follow-up” of this strike, with “noticeably reduced” academic activity in most centers.
Source: EITB
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