The Nine Teachers Union Platform will sue the Ministry of Education for demanding minimum services for a two-day strike scheduled for the beginning of the month.
“We are going to appeal to the Court of Appeal,” Mario Nogueira, general secretary of the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof), said on Tuesday on behalf of the nine trade union structures united on the platform.
According to Mario Nogueira, the action will be “signed by nine organizations” and the process is in the process of being finalized for submission to the court.
The unions began by taking precautions against the arbitration board’s decision to call minimum strike services, which took place on March 2 in schools in the north of the country and on March 3 in schools in the south.
“We knew the precautionary measures would have little impact,” said Mario Nogueira, explaining that the unions’ actions were similar to what happened in 2018, when guardians demanded minimal services for strikes in national exams.
Also at the time, the precautions had no practical effect, but the court later agreed with the teachers, deeming the minimum service illegal, he recalled.
The Ministry of Education began by requesting minimum services for a strike called by the Union of All Education Workers (STOP) that began in early December, when an arbitration court ruled in favor of the guardianship request.
The lawsuit, which will now be filed, “is outdated, but it shows how this ministry and arbitration boards are taking the wrong measures,” Mario Nogueira explained.
The trade union platform also decided to file a complaint with the International Labor Organization and two other educational organizations: the Trade Union Committee on Education and Education International, the union member added.
In addition, the nine unions will also “present the challenges faced by teachers to the European Commission and the European Parliament”.
Meanwhile, the platform also decided to “request meetings with the leadership of all political parties, not least because many of them showed solidarity”, namely the PKP and the Left Bloc, who were present at the demonstrations organized by the teachers.
The platform’s statements came two days before a new meeting with the Ministry of Education, the agenda of which includes negotiations on a new regime for the recruitment and placement of teachers.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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