The mediation meetings held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Treball headquarters between the teachers’ unions and the Department of Education they have finished no progress and this Thursday the teachers will return to the streets in a new day of strike in public schools and institute of Catalonia. It will be the last stoppage of the second round of protests and the last of the course after the five strikes in March.
From now on, a new scenario opens up in which the unions (Ustec, CCOO, Intersindical, Aspepc, UGT, CGT and Usoc) want to keep the mobilizations alive, although they will not be this June, but for the next September. A decision that will be conditioned by the evolution of the negotiations with the Department, for the moment in a deadlock after the meeting on Wednesday.
“There has been no progress nor has Educació made any new proposals. They have made us dizzy. We will not sit down again until they come up with something acceptable,” said the spokeswoman for Ustec, Iolanda Segura, at the end of the meeting. The last proposal of the Department, raised at the meeting on June 1, proposed the return of the stadiums (a labor claim of teachers) but left for future courses the recovery of teaching hours in primary (year 23-24) and secondary (course 24-25). This point is one of the priorities of the unions, who have already said ‘no’ to a previous offer from Educació to recover the hour in primary school this year and in secondary school in 23-24. They claim to recover the time for all teachers from September. And here everything is stuck.
Thus, this Thursday the day will begin with the usual informative pickets which, as in other days, will cause traffic problems in Barcelona. There are pickets called at 08:15 in Can Batlló and at 10:00 in Plaça de Sants. The manifestation It will leave at 11:30 a.m. from Plaça Universitat and head towards Plaça de Sant Jaume.
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The mobilizations of this second round (May 17 and 25 and June 2) have had little follow-up. The last one, the partial one on June 2, was followed by just 1.18% of the teaching staff. A low follow-up that the unions attribute to wear and tear and complicated end-of-year dates.
The minimum services decreed by the Department of Labor are the following:
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A person from the management team (director, coordinator, head of studies, secretary) and in the case of nurseries, a member of the faculty.
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In infant, primary and ESO, one teacher for every three classrooms
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In special education schools, 50% of the center’s staff
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In nurseries, 50% of the center’s staff.
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For the Tarragona educational complex, 50% of the dining room and kitchen staff, one maintenance person per shift and maintenance of the usual nursing and surveillance service.