On Tuesday, the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) will present to the Assembly of the Republic four petitions relating to working conditions, precarity, retirement and teaching careers, which will be discussed in plenary session.
Fenprof began collecting signatures during the pre-election period and during the election campaign, exceeding the number of signatures required for discussion at the plenary session of parliament.
The petition related to the restoration of seniority collects about 19 thousand signatures, followed by a petition on the pension regime, working hours and, finally, on the fight against precarious work, which, according to Fenprof, exceeded 13 thousand signatures.
Subscribers ask the Assembly of the Republic to approve initiatives that would allow the six years, six months and 23 days to be restored “in stages, over three consecutive years, starting now.”
The new government has announced that it intends to return this service life within five years, 20% per year, with Fenprof warning that it wants a faster recovery (33% per year).
Trade unions and the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation will meet at the end of the week to begin negotiations on the issue, but on Tuesday the Fenprof delegation will present a petition reinforcing its position on the issue, which has sparked numerous strikes and demonstrations in recent years.
The federation will also present three other petitions, which address working conditions, the fight against precarious employment and retirement as a condition for rejuvenating the teaching class, since the majority of teachers who currently teach are over 50 years old.
One of the petitions demands that working hours be “fair, legal and consistent with teaching duties,” as well as improved working and learning conditions in schools.
On retirement, subscribers are asking for a special regime for the retirement of teachers after 36 years of service, allowing for a step-by-step process until it is fully implemented.
Fenprof’s petition also defends the possibility of “voluntary and immediate retirement without age penalties for teachers with 40 or more years of experience,” as well as the application of a pre-retirement regime to teachers and the possibility of not counting length of service. career growth, the issue of decriminalizing early retirement should be considered.
A petition calling for an end to instability has received more than 13,000 signatures in favor of creating tenured positions based on the real needs of schools and revising the “slowdown rate” and dynamic linking rules to link all teachers with three or more years of experience.
Another factor is the end of the contract renewal mechanism, which, according to Fenprof, “confirms that this is a permanent and not a temporary need,” as well as the end of false “green slips” at the AEC, vocational schools and educational institutions specializing in the arts. work. proposals in the petition against instability.
According to Fenprof, the devaluation of the profession led to the fact that thousands of young teachers abandoned the profession, and even young ones who received secondary education did not go to teacher training courses.
According to the federation, the government program approved by the Assembly of the Republic does not correspond to what would be necessary for the development of the profession, given that some measures “if implemented, would be very harmful to teachers and the public school.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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