The Education sector is on a war footing. Different unions have organized protest acts and mobilizations in order to denounce the situation that is being experienced and that It affects everything from public employees in the administration to the working conditions of teachers. and the lack of coverage of various positions, among other claims. A demand that unions such as STEPA and CATA have carried generally to the public sector on the occasion of the cessation of interims in the autonomous Administration on November 1.
With a concentration of “empty chairs”STEPA and CATA have gathered this morning in front of the headquarters of the Department of Public Service to demand the dismissal of interim workers and that the rulings of the European Union and Spanish legislation itself, which call for stabilization, be complied with.
For both unions, the situation is serious. In general, various profiles are missing from doctors to teachers, administrators… Only in the Provincial Education Service in Zaragoza reports that more than 40 people are missing for the areas of information, scholarship management, teaching staff management or inspection, among other areas.
And the situation is expected to worsen since both unions have denounced that Mass dismissals of interim staff continue in abuse of temporality, which results in there being more and more thousands of empty positions instead of stabilizing them in accordance with the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national legislation itself. A situation that entails deterioration of public services generally and, especially, in the educational sector.
For its part, since The CCOO and UGT unions have come out in defense of teachers to ask for improvements both through negotiation and mobilization at the doors of educational centers today, when the union organizations had been summoned to ratify the agreement that was reached so that Aragonese teachers were the worst paid from Spain.
Both unions have refused this ratification until the real and effective reduction to 24 hours for the body of teachers and the reduction in hours for those over 55 years of age is resolved. Two issues that CCOO and UGT point out are still not applied in many educational centers in Aragon.
From CGT they have also shown their discomfort for the action of the CSIF union for breaking the union union by ratifying an agreement on which they point out that the Administration has failed to comply since its signing, especially in aspects such as the no reduction in the practice of teaching hours for preschool and primary school teachers or not providing teachers to the centers to cover the reductions for those over 55 years of age. Furthermore, he questions the validity of the agreement as it only has the support of 25% of the sector’s union representation.
CGT, as well as CCOO, UGT and STEA, have highly valued the strikes carried out in Aragonese public education, and have also demanded that the administration negotiate to reverse the cuts and avoid further mobilizations.
Lack of personnel in more sectors
STEPA and CATA have also denounced the lack of personnel in other sectors. This is the case of the assessment of dependency and degree of disability, which accumulates delays of more than a year due to lack of workers.
At the moment, 60,339 people work in the General Council of Aragon. Of them, 50.3% are temporary and more than 17,000 accumulate more than three years, the legal maximum allowed. The latest statistical personnel bulletin of the Government of Aragon recognizes that only 3,893 public employees have a permanent destination.
According to data from STEPA and CATA, the next mass layoff will take place this Friday, November 1, when the personnel who were in a provisional destination take definitive possession and the more than 600 career employees of the second macro-competition of transfers carried out by Public Function in the General Administration. Only 17% of the 3,207 positions offered have been filled. Besides, The incorporations do not guarantee that the work will be done because the substitutes can benefit from service commissions. Nor the fact that the previous positions left vacant by permanent officials are immediately filled.
Both unions agree in pointing out that to all this is added the controversy instruction approved last May by the general director of Public Function, Antonio Villacampa, which imposes the automatic dismissal of interim workers who have been in a position for three consecutive years, “even at the cost of leaving them unfilled since the coverage of that position can last for a long time.”
From STEPA they describe it as “bleeding” that the Government of Aragon has completely failed to comply with Law 20/21, which requires stabilizing the 17,000 positions occupied by Aragonese interim workers in fraud of law, and “it does use it to promote these new layoffs.”
Recently, almost five months after the instruction was approved, the Aragonese Executive has approved a modification of the same, according to which Each department can exceptionally establish that some interim employees remain in their positions..
For STEPA, this “does not solve the problem and also increases the arbitrariness of this rule, which the Government did not want to approve as an order or decree, to prevent it from being appealed.”
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