The Court of Arbitration extended until the end of March the minimum services that apply in schools due to the strike of the Union of All Education Professionals (STOP).
The decision, made unanimously, was published this Monday and keeps all the minimum services in force for about a month, including the mandatory three hours of daily classes.
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The arbitration panel ruling refers only to the strike called by STOP, which protects teachers and other school workers, between March 20 and 31.
Thus, the centers will have to continue teaching at least three hours of class in infants and 1st cycle, as well as three daily teaching periods per class in 2nd and 3rd cycles and secondary educationin order to guarantee weekly coverage of the different disciplines.
Support is also guaranteed for students who benefit from additional measures in the field of inclusive education, therapeutic support, support for students in vulnerable situations, reception of students in the units integrated into the Support Centers to Learning and the continuity of the measures aimed at socio-emotional well-being. be.
As for non-teaching workers, they must guarantee concierge service, provision of meals and supervision of students in the school space.
After almost three months of an indefinite strike for the entire period of service, which the Attorney General of the Republic questioned on the grounds that there was a discrepancy between the strike notices delivered to the Ministry of Education and the information delivered to teachers by the STOP, the union decided to start a new form of struggle with strikes only in the first two hours of each worker’s day.
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The Arbitral Tribunal resolved to maintain the minimum services for the new strike, which has been taking place since February 27, and again argues that the stoppage cannot be considered “in isolation, since it is well known that the prior notices (…) issued in the sequence, and in direct continuity, of an already prolonged period of strikes called by the same union”.
For the arbitral tribunal, these strikes call into question “in a serious and irremediable way the learning and the school performance of children and students”, and their right of access to education.
Source: Observadora
