The arbitration court extended until the end of March the minimum services that operate in schools in connection with the strike of the Union of All Educational Workers (STOP).
The decision, passed unanimously, was published on Monday and keeps all minimum services in place for about a month, including mandatory three-hour daily classes.
The decision of the arbitration board only concerns the strike called by STOP, which involves teachers and other school workers from March 20 to 31.
Therefore, schools will still need to provide at least three hours of instruction in preschool and 1st cycle, as well as three daily classroom hours in 2nd and 3rd cycles and secondary education, to ensure weekly coverage of different disciplines.
Support is also guaranteed for students who benefit from complementary measures within inclusive education, therapeutic support, support for students in vulnerable situations, enrollment of students in units integrated into Learning Support Centers, and continuity of measures aimed at socio-emotional well-being. existence.
As for non-teaching staff, they must provide concierge service, catering and supervision of students in the school space.
After almost three months of indefinite strikes throughout the service, which the Attorney General’s Office interrogated on the basis of a discrepancy between strike notices delivered to the Ministry of Education and information provided to STOP teachers, the union decided to start a new form of strike control only in the first two periods of each workday. shifts.
The arbitral tribunal decided to maintain minimum services for the new strike, which has been ongoing since 27 February, and again argues that the stoppage cannot be considered “in isolation, since it is generally known that advance notices (…) are sent in succession and in immediate continuity of an already long period of strikes, declared by the same union.”
According to the arbitration court, these strikes pose a “serious and irreparable threat to the learning and school performance of children and students” and their right to access to education.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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