The Teachers’ Union announced today (Wednesday) the opening of sanctions, in protest of the delay in formulating the wage agreement. The announcement said that as part of the sanctions, the school day will begin tomorrow at the educational institutions in the Central District at ten o’clock in the morning. These are kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools, where only special education is exempt from the sanctions.
They claimed that they did everything to avoid sanctions, which would harm the normal course of studies, but “finance officials left no choice”. We further noted that the state must act quickly and resolutely, in order to prevent the crisis of abandonment of teaching staff, which is leading to the collapse of the education system.
Demonstration by the Teachers’ Union on the salaries of employees in the education system (Archive photo: Avshalom Sasson)
Secretary General of the Teachers’ Union Yaffa Ben-David She explained that “tomorrow’s sanctions are a wake-up call for the entire government and finance officials. They are doing everything to pull time and not reach an agreement. “.
She added that every day more and more reports of teaching staff leaving the system are coming to her. “The flow is growing. Principals say they will have to close classrooms or release students earlier. Gardeners are fleeing the profession after being informed that next year they will have to deal with 35 children in kindergarten alone. We feel helpless. All our cries of distress run into the atomic walls of finance officials.” saying.
Meanwhile, following the brief warning about postponing school tomorrow, many parents criticized the move, and the national parent leadership expressed opposition. However, according to Ben-David, many parents support the struggle and said that “I do not deal with the leadership of the parents, but with the parents themselves. In deeds, a large part of the students’ parents are seen as supporting the struggle.
Ben-David accused finance officials of disparaging teaching staff on the basis of gender: “We have been warning for years and since January we have been shouting loudly in the general public. But finance officials continue to come to unprepared negotiating meetings, with vague proposals and no budget. How can the education system be saved like this? I assume that if it had not been for a sector where most of the female attitudes would have been completely different. “
Ministry of Finance building (Photo: Pierre Turgeman, Flash 90)“I call on all government ministers, and especially Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman – to intervene in the crisis. Education is the most important resource for the future generation. We will continue to fight by all means until we penetrate the wall of opacity. ” Ben-David added that “we will take all the steps available to us so that a good wage agreement is signed. We will decide how to aggravate the steps and announce in our time.”
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