BE says without structural spending on education government ‘pretends’ to negotiate

This Friday, the BE coordinator considered that when the finance minister says that there can be no increase in structural spending on education, the government is “not negotiating with the unions”, but rather “pretends”.

On the sidelines of a workers’ rally in solidarity with the suspended security guard after he declared that he was the victim of moral persecution, which was attended by PS MP Miguel Matos, PCP MP Alma Rivera and the only Livre MP Rui Tavares – – Katarina Journalists asked Mārtiņš about stalemate in education negotiations.

“First of all, the government must be serious. When you hear the finance minister saying that there can be nothing on the negotiating table that would increase structural spending, it means that the government is not negotiating with the unions, but pretending,” he accused. .

According to the BE leader, schools and teachers need “an investment solution that is a structural expense, but is part of it.”

“A country that knows that education is necessary will have to give these funds to education,” he urged.

According to Katarina Martins, “students are punished when the school cannot function.”

“I know that there are those who are desperately fighting the strike because their children are not attending classes, but I also remember that so many students are left without classes for months because there is simply no way to hire teachers in some subjects and some directions. country,” he said.

Believing that “the teachers’ fight is a very fair fight for a public school”, the lockdown coordinator shoots the PS chief.

“The problem is that the government has delayed any decision so much that it has created an explosive situation in the schools, and at the moment all the government says is that it will do what it is already required to do for contracted teachers, or at least for some of them” has been criticized.

However, Katarina Martins, “this is not the only problem with the school.”

“Teachers have very low salaries, they don’t have the ability to pay for the travel they have to pay to get to work, they have schools that lack so much, and so the government has allowed the situation to deteriorate so much that now much more is needed. than to say that he will abide by the legislation that he has had to abide by for so long,” he lamented.

This Friday, the Minister of Education gave a positive assessment to the negotiations on the recruitment and placement of teachers and called for an end to the ongoing strikes, saying that there are already points of understanding with the unions.

“I made a very clear call for an end to the strike. If we are negotiating, if we are working together and we have moments where we already know that we are going to come to an agreement, there is no reason to continue this. ongoing violations in the system,” Joao Costa said in statements to reporters.

This Friday Minister of Education and Secretary of State António Leite sat down at the negotiating table with trade unions in the last meetings of the third round of talks on the recruitment and mobility of teaching staff.