The general secretary of the PS, António Costa, defended this Saturday that the situation of teachers with the “house behind their backs” must be ended and he was confident in an agreement with the unions of the sector.
“We hope to reach an agreement with the unions so that once and for all, teachers with a ‘home on their backs’ can be put an end to and that they can, as soon as they are hired, join the school where they are and simply leave. there if one day they want it,” he said.
António Costa was speaking in Covilhã, at the XX Federative Congress of PS Castelo Branco, in a speech that was accompanied by online in the federal socialist congresses of other regions, which are also taking place this Saturday.
During the session, the Socialist leader and Prime Minister reiterated his commitment to carry out “structural reforms” and pointed to the issue of public schools, highlighting the situation of teachers and the need to change the relationship model.
Costa recalled that a union negotiation process has already been opened to change the teacher hiring model and assumed that “there is no reason” for this to be “the only career in the entire state” that has to undergo a tripartite process. competition year in three years.
António Costa recognized the problem of teachers of not knowing if they are going to be near or far from home and if they are going to have to carry ‘the house on their backs’, “without knowing where they can connect”. “There is no reason for this to happen,” he stressed.
Noting that the stability of the teaching body reinforces the quality of education, he stressed that this is a fundamental achievement that must be achieved.
António Costa also guaranteed that the reinforcement of the National Health Service (SNS) will continue and stressed that it is necessary to “improve management efficiency”, stressing that the creation of the Executive Directorate of the SNS is essential to achieve this improvement.
Source: Observadora
