The Basque government has called for dialogue and insisted that negotiations remain open “in the hope of reaching an agreement”.
The unions have emphasized “extensive follow-up” from the first day of teachers’ strike of non-university public education met this Wednesday. The first of the twelve days of strikes declared by LAB, Steilas, ELA and CCOO in non-university public education takes place this Wednesday with the teaching staff strikes, which will be repeated this Thursday and will continue in the kitchen and cleaning staff and the Haurreskolak Consortium.
In an initial assessment, the LAB union has assured that the strike is receiving “broad monitoring” and that the teachers “clearly demonstrate that they do not agree with the statements made by the Ministry of Education or with the reality it sought to reflect.”
On the occasion of this first strike, the teachers’ group from Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa will demonstrate today at 11:30 am in Bilbao from the headquarters of the Basque government to the Arriaga Theater.
Teaching staff are also called upon to mobilize on January 23 and February 26 and 27; while strikes have been announced for Haurreskolak Consortium staff on January 28 and 29 and February 12 and 13; and that of the kitchen and cleaning staff on January 30 and 31 and February 19 and 20.
Claims
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.
The unions have said that the Ministry of Education should strengthen public education and increase public investment to improve working conditions for staff and “put the public school at the center.”
The trade union centers have recalled that the employment contracts of the groups that called for the strike have expired and that in particular the agreements of the teaching staff and personnel management of the Haurreskolak Consortium, both the kitchen and cleaning contracts, date from 2009 and that the staff teacher of 2010.
Basque government
The Basque government has called for dialogue and insisted that negotiations remain open “in the hope of reaching an agreement”.
The Ministry of Education of the Basque government sent a notice to families and teachers stating that it was difficult to understand “the call for twelve strikes in non-university public education when the negotiating tables with the unions are “active” and the agreements are ‘at hand’.
Source: EITB
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