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The Flc CGIL speaks of a vertical drop in the teaching profession caused by too low wages and working conditions that keep young people from aspiring to be teachers.
Teacher salaries are too low
The money allocated by the government for the renewal of public employment contracts would be enough to increase current wages by 108 euros gross per month. In essence, 3.8 billion euros to be delivered to 3.5 million public employees would be just over 100 euros each. This is an increase in wages equal to 4.07%But it must be said that there are some categories, such as magistrates and public service managers that will take much more and others that will take much less. In addition, it must also be taken into account that within these 3,800 million euros, there is also the part that serves to maintain the equalization quota provided for the lowest salaries and inserted through the National Collective Bargaining Agreement 2016-2018. Basically for teachers there is the risk of reaching a gross monthly increase of no more than 75 euros, which would mean an additional 40 euros net in the payroll each month.
The traditional promise of M5S
When the government of Gentiloni in 2018 renewed the school contract after a blockade of almost ten years, with a sum greater than 85 euros gross and monthly, the Hon. Di Maio was very clear and explicit in his statements: “First of all, we must adapt salaries of Italian teachers to the European average and ensure the improvement of their professionalism, also with the renewal of the contract and the remuneration of the hours of training and updating. The teaching profession must once again have the prestige that was stolen, including through stabilization of historical precariousness”.
On the reform of the Good College, the former M5S leader said: “Renzi reform has nothing good. We will dismantle it starting from precisely those measures that have transformed the school into a company: the superpowers to the directors, direct call of teachers, the bonus and the training booklet for teachers that is more of an electoral failure ”.
It is evident to all after more than two years of majority governments of the M5S, always led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, as on the repeal of law 107/015 and on the increase in the salaries of teachers, there has been a clear and indisputable betrayal of the electoral promises made. in 2018.
Flc Cgil a Conte: Italian teachers deserve more
At the end of 2020, on New Year’s Day, comes a press release from Flc Cgil on teachers ‘salaries: “This is the second time that the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, has taken care of teachers’ salaries. The first time was in April 2019, when it even signed a Memorandum of Understanding with school unions, recognizing the importance of adjusting teachers’ salaries to the average of their European colleagues, as the unions legitimately request. But then his first government fell.
Now, although in a generic way, the president returns to the subject at the end of the year press conference, to say that more needs to be done.
Sadly, the recognition stops here, and if it stops here, it will accompany the very long series of presidents and ministers of education who admit the anomaly but then do nothing to correct it.
The ills of the Italian school are long-standing and endemic: chicken coop classes, chronic precariousness, period staff cuts, outdated construction, reduced school hours, oversized and unmanageable schools, administrative support structures reduced to the blink of an eye, unsupported autonomy , etc. But the lack of attractiveness of the teaching profession is also part of this bleak picture. Inadequate salaries are one of the causes that lead to empty rankings, uncovered classes, and a vertical drop in the social status of the profession.
If we begin to plan a gradual increase in salaries so that it is implemented in even more contracts from the next one, then we can say that we are starting to get out of the conversation to do concrete things.
