Twelve calls for strikes in public education begin with the teachers’ strike

The unions LAB, Steilas, ELA and CCOO Their twelve strike calls in non-university public education will begin today with the teachers’ strike.

On January 17, these trade union centers registered with the Education Delegation of the Basque Government this cycle of twelve strikes affecting kitchen and cleaning staff, the Haurreskolak Consortium and public school teachers.

It is the group of teachers who have been called for this first day of strike, and in total they have been called to support this strike 30,000 employees.

On the occasion of this first strike, teachers from Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa will demonstrate in Bilbao this Wednesday, starting at 11:30 amfrom the headquarters of the Basque government to the Arriaga theater.

Teaching staff are also called on to mobilize January 23 and February 26 and 27; while the strikes for the Haurreskolak Consortium staff are on for the day January 28 and 29 and February 12 and 13; and that of the kitchen and cleaning staff on days January 30 and 31 and February 19 and 20.

With these mobilizations, they want to demand, among other things, measures to reduce work pressure, bring forward retirement, restore purchasing power, stabilize and guarantee employment, and guarantee occupational health, the Basque language and equality.

Unions have stated that the Ministry of Education should strengthen public education and increase public investment to improve staff working conditions “place the public school in the center”.

The trade union centers have reminded that the agreements labor rights of the groups called to strike they have expired and specifically the agreements of the teaching staff and staff management of the Haurreskolak Consortium, both kitchen and cleaning, date from 2009 and the teaching staff from 2010.

The unions did that concrete requirements for each group, but they agreed on seven common demands, such as ‘concrete measures to alleviate the growing workload, develop a workforce rejuvenation plan in anticipation of retirement, restore lost purchasing power, stabilize employment and guarantee employment against mergers and closures of public centers. “.

In the same way, they demand the implementation of educational policies that “unite the entire public education system, draw up studies and agreed corrective measures that guarantee and guarantee the occupational health of employees and provide the means to develop stable plans for equality and high-quality coeducation .” “.

From the Basque government He again called for dialogue on Tuesday and stressed that negotiations would remain open “in the hope of reaching an agreement”. These are the minimal services established by the Basque government for the twelve days’ strike in education.