Fenprof general secretary Mario Nogueira this Wednesday admitted to planning strikes for grades and exams in the event that an agreement with the government to restore teachers’ tenure by June 6 is not met.
“If this happens, the end of this year will be peaceful. If this does not happen, the struggle will continue, and at the end of the year we will only have grades and exams. National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) in Beja.
Mario Nogueira spoke to the Lusa agency during a rally in the city of Alentejo, followed by a parade between Diogo de Gouveia High School and Jardim do Bacalhau, where union leaders spoke.
Noting that the teachers are ready to intensify the actions of the struggle, the Secretary General of Fenprof recalled the strike planned for June 6 and other protests planned before that time, which will be announced on Friday.
June 6, he stressed, “will be a historic day” as there will be “an agreement to restore working hours” or the shutdown scheduled for that day will be “one of the largest strikes in history.”
“I am convinced that teachers do not work and everyone will go on strike, and, first of all, this is the first day of struggle at the end of the school year, and then only final grades and exams,” he said. .
The leader of the union pointed out that teachers are “absolutely available to discuss the stages and timing of the phased transition” of unrecorded working time and are not available to “theft of working time.”
On the day of the district teachers’ strike in the district of Beja, Mario Nogueira emphasized that the diploma of employment currently accepted by the President of the Republic “does not deserve the consent of the trade unions”.
“In fact, it is a degree that leaves so many others aside [professores] in difficult conditions with more than three years of experience, and this is a diploma that is vicious in some of the measures that it provides, ”he said.
According to the Secretary General of Fenprof, this diploma remains unreliable, since “it will allow the recruitment of a teacher in the fourth year of service and will not allow the recruitment of a teacher in the 14th year of service.”
Teachers who marched through the streets of the city of Alentejo held union flags and demand posters and chanted slogans such as “the struggle continues in schools and on the streets” or “time to count, not to steal.”
Also speaking to Lusa, Carlos Calixto of the National Federation of Education (FNE) called the diploma a “little hole” as he realizes that it remains unreliable.
“It is clear that the main actors should be others, conscientious and with political will. The issue is very easy to resolve as long as there is political will,” he added.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, unveiled on Monday a government diploma for the recruitment of teachers, which, according to Education Minister Joao Costa, allows the recruitment of more than 10,000 teachers.
Under the new regime, teachers will be able to sign a contract when they have accumulated the equivalent of three years of service, an amendment that the overseeing minister says would halve insecurity in the teaching profession.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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