No agreement between Education and teachers despite Cambray’s promises

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  • The positions remain “very far apart” and both parties will continue negotiations this Friday

  • The ‘conseller’ had raised expectations by stating that he would not leave the table until an agreement was reached

The Department of Education and the teachers strike committee have given for Second meeting ended to close positions and negotiate a deal to close the open conflict in the educational community and have been summoned to continue the dialogue first thing this Friday. Thursday’s meeting began at 11:00 a.m. and lasted until after 7:00 p.m., with a two-hour break for lunch. The proposal that the ‘ministry’ has put on the table for the unions has not yet come to light, but union sources have pointed out that this proposal “does not fit” the demands raised by teachers. So the positions “are still very far apart” and there have been no concretions. According to sources, at this time, the school calendar is a red line for the Department.

In fact, before the end of the meeting, the unions have begun to publicize the details of the demonstrations of the strikes on March 29 and 30 and to make calls for mobilization. The negotiations on the part of Educació are led by the General Director of Teachers and Personnel of Public Centers, Dolors Collell, who has highlighted the “willingness to understand” that there is at the negotiation table.

This very afternoon, a group of teachers summoned by Assemblea Groga stood up before the ERC headquarters in Calàbria street in Barcelona to make a casserole. Shouting “ERC, traitors, you are selling public education”, they have displayed banners with the slogan ‘Cambray + Bofill, educació en perill’.

The ‘conseller’, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, had raised expectations when this morning in Parliament he assured: “We will not leave the table until we reach an agreement historical. We want this deal rebuilding all the bridges that is necessary, with measures that have an impact on the student body and that also respond to the labor rights of teachers”. Cambray also reiterated that “everything cannot be done at the same time”, alluding to all the demands of the teachers. teachers.

In the first contact, on Tuesday, the representatives of the unions calling the strike (Ustec, CCOO, Intersindical, Aspepc, UGT, CGT and SOC) have already stated their demands; a list of 14 points that include, among other requests, reverse cutouts that public education has dragged on for more than 10 years, recover the hours of coordination, eliminate the thirds of the day, stabilize the interim, reduce the ratios and increase resources. They also ask for a moratorium on the new school calendar and to negotiate the curricula.

For now, then, the days of strike called for March 29 and 30. In fact, this afternoon the unions have presented the poster of the mobilizations. On March 29, the demonstration will leave Jardinets de Gràcia and head to the Department headquarters, while the one on March 30 will leave Plaça Universitat and end in Plaça de Sant Jaume.

The 30-M protest will have the participation of families who demand the real deployment and with resources from the inclusive school decree, approved in 2017. In this case, these families will gather before the ‘conselleria’.

“You can’t do everything at once”

At Parliament, Cambray has been questioned again this Thursday, in this case by CUP and ‘comuns’. In his response, the ‘conseller’ has once again insisted on the idea that when faced with requests from teachers, “we have to be aware that not everything can be done at once“. “I understand that you may not agree with the order of prioritization, but not everything can be done at the same time,” he insisted.

You have reiterated that there is a action schedule to reverse the cuts: lower ratios in P3 next year, conversion of the workday from thirds to half as of September (this is a demand from the unions) and a progressive plan to stabilize the workforce so that 24% of current interim will go to 10% in 2024.

About him new school calendar, which was the straw that exhausted the patience of teachers, has ensured that the Government “does not impose anything.” “We decided to apply it and we started the debate to see how we deploy it, always with pedagogical criteria”. “All the self-criticism that is necessary but at no time have I underestimated anyone,” she insisted. The surprise announcement of the progress of the school year, without having previously commented on it to the educational community, has been one of the factors that has caused the educational community to feel “underestimated”, as they have reiterated in recent weeks.

Aragonès: “I will not stop Cambray”

The president’, Pere Aragones, supported Cambray again yesterday, Wednesday, in the control session of the Government in Parliament. Asked by the CUP deputy Nogay Ndiaye about whether he “is willing to dismiss” Cambray “or will continue to profile himself” in this matter, Aragonès ratified his “trust” in the head of Education: “I will not dismiss the ‘conseller’ Cambray”.

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He recalled that Cambray assumed “responsibility” before the judicial decisions that question the model of linguistic immersion in schools and stressed that he now bears the weight of the negotiation with the strike committee of the educational community. “There has been a meeting with the strike committee. If for each meeting that does not end in an agreement we had to resign, in this Parliament there would be no one left. Therefore, let us work,” he stressed.

In the control session in Parliament, up to five parliamentary groups called for Cambray’s resignation. The deputy of PSC Esther Niubo He accused him of “lack of dialogue, planning and resources for education” and warned: “If this week you don’t redirect the situation, if you don’t resolve well the different fronts that you have open, you would do well to give way.” Cambray defended his decisions, because they represent “the best for the students”, but assured that he is willing to dialogue and collect demands from the educational community.



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