The Fenprof general secretary revealed this Wednesday that the Ministry of Education requested minimum services for the strikes in schools on March 2 and 3, which the union considers “illegal” and “unworthy of democracy.”
“It is unacceptable and unworthy of democracy that minimum services are requested for a two-day strike”accused Mário Nogueira, referring to the Ministry’s decision on the strike scheduled for March 2 in schools in the north and center of the country (above Coimbra) and in the south on March 3.
“In our opinion, requests for minimal services are illegal. We ask the Minister of Education to be at the level of what democracy demands”said Mário Nogueira at the end of the fifth round of negotiations at the Ministry, where unions and guardianships once again discussed a new model for hiring and placing teachers.
Mário Nogueira recalled that there is jurisprudence in this regard, referring to the teacher strikes in the 2018 national exams, which led the guardianship to convene minimum services: “The Court considered the minimum services illegal, the Ministry of Education appealed, but it was once again considered illegal,” he recalled.
The Ministry of Education had already requested the minimum services due to the strike decreed by the Union of All Education Professionals (STOP), which began at the beginning of December and continues, with the ruling of the arbitral tribunal in favor of the request for protection. .
Since mid-January, the minimum services for the STOP strike have been decreed. However, the platform of nine unions of which Fenprof is a part decided to schedule two days of strike for March, and the Ministry decided, this Wednesday, to also request the minimum services for those two days.
On the negotiations that resumed this Wednesday, Mário Nogueira He says that as the diploma is, there will be no agreement.
The fifth round of negotiations continues on Friday, when issues that were not discussed will be addressed, with new meetings already scheduled for February 23, the Fenprof leader said, adding that more meetings may be held later.
This Wednesday, the 12 union structures began to analyze the new document, with “many aspects that requested clarification,” he added, giving as an example that the proposal provides that teachers who were not placed on December 31 will be left without bail, even though have “15 years of service”.
“We handed over a dossier with many contract partners who are out of the relationship,” he said, adding that “the diploma of competence does not correspond to what a fair diploma should be in which no one is surpassed by others”.
“The issues in which we are further away from the Ministry are yet to come,” he added, noting that in addition to the diploma now under discussion, teachers “will not abandon their claims” in other matters such as the recovery of the frozen service. time, the end of vacancies and quotas for access to levels 5 and 7 or long working hours.
Although the Ministry’s proposal was “an extraordinary document, which it is not”, as long as the guardianship does not agree to negotiate the rest of the matters “there will be no document that stops teachers”.
Mário Nogueira re-emphasized that the unions do not demand that these issues be immediately negotiated, but they ask that a schedule be made.
Source: Observadora
