2024-09-03 08:52:02
The teachers’ strike will continue tomorrow (Wednesday), and will enter its fourth day. This follows a negotiation meeting that took place today between the teachers’ organization and the Tories, which did not happen as a result. So far the Ministries of Finance and Education have refrained from asking the Labor Court for strike injunctions. Starting tomorrow, Upper Galilee high schools will be excluded from the strike, as will schools in the conflict line settlements to the north and south.
From the teachers’ organization, the words of the organization’s chairman, Ran Erez, were given: “The negotiations that took place today ended again without progress. The strike will continue in the high schools tomorrow. It is time for the Minister of Finance to understand that the future of the education system in the State of Israel is not a political game, and he is to blame for the strike.”
He also said Erez: “As long as we do not reach an agreement, the strike will not end. The Ministry of Finance has been dragging us for two and a half years, and they are taking their actions through a struggle with the teachers’ organization. I met and the Minister of Education together, but the Ministry of Finance is the owner of the story.”
The Minister of Education Yoav Kish said during the negotiation meeting: “Although you sit here and argue nonsense – students are evacuated without frameworks, young people risk the streets and teachers praise their livelihood. If you don’t know how to solve the matter, from my point of view, bring other people who do. The education system will not sit idle while you destroy years of work. Do I need to remind you that there is a war outside?”.
The school year will begin at four high schools in the Upper Galilee
The four schools in the council will open the school year tomorrow: Har Vagya, which currently operates in the Zachar industrial area between Hazor and Rosh Pina; and Kibbutz Ayelet Hashar, and Branko Weiss Anna Frank.
Before the start of the school year, the teachers’ organization and the Ministry of Education agreed that schools along the conflict line would be excluded from the strike: in the north, the schools in Western Galicia were excluded – Manor Kabri, Solam Tzur, Ofek, and Scoil Education of Western Galilee; Golan landscapes in Katsrin and the high school in Majdal Shams. In the south, the schools in the regional councils of Sdot Negev, Shaar HaNegev, Merhavim and Eshkol were excluded; in Sderot, Ofakim and Nitiv; as well as the ‘Shakma’ school in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. The head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, Giora Zaltz, criticized the decision not to include Upper Galilee in the excluded schools: “The decision proves that there is no limit to disconnection and opacity vis-à-vis the inhabitants of Galway. line of conflict in the north in the north everyone involved gets a zero in geography and a hundred opacity.”
The dispute: personal contracts
On Thursday, the teachers’ organization officially announced that the school year in the high schools will not start on the first day of the following day, due to the impasse in negotiations with the State Treasury on a new salary agreement for teachers. Erez already issued an ultimatum last week, according to which if a salary agreement is not signed by August 28, the high school teachers will go on strike. This is against the backdrop of a long struggle by the teachers for a new salary agreement more than two years after the previous agreement expired, including sanctions such as not participating in extra-curricular activities and not going into mothers grades.
The negotiations between the teachers’ organization and the Ministry of Finance have been going on for two and a half years, since the previous high school teachers’ collective agreement ended. The current dispute between them concerns the terms of employment of the teachers, not The organization and the Ministry of Finance already agreed last August on an increase of NIS 2,000 per month for all high school teachers.
At the heart of the dispute is the issue of individual contracts, which allow teachers to be employed under unique conditions outside the collective agreement for a set period, the form of employment which the organization is opposing on the grounds that it creates disallowed status. teachers and harms equality between teachers and the organizing power of all teachers. This demand comes from the Ministry of Finance, and the Director General of the Ministry of Education admitted to the Labor Court that his office does not see any importance or urgency in it. The Ministry of Finance claims that the teachers’ organization agreed to this as early as last August, a claim that the teachers’ organization vehemently denies.
Last week, Kish presented a compromise outline that practically includes employment in personal contracts, similar to the agreement the teachers union signed two years ago, but the teachers’ organization called his proposal a “media spin.” Later, according to Erez, Kish offered to agree to personal contracts for one year, after which the organization could withdraw from it.
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