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Fenprof announced, this Friday, the programming of a national strike for December 11 of kindergarten teachers and teachers of basic and secondary education, which includes both face-to-face and distance education.
The announcement was made after a delegation from the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof) went to the official residence of the Prime Minister to “expose the situation in education, formalize the delivery of the strike call, but make a last effort to open avenues of dialogue ”.
After delivering the strike notice, the general secretary of Fenprof, Mário Nogueira, told reporters that the protest was initially planned for the 9th, 10th and 11th in a staggered manner by regions of the country.
But the teachers ended up opting for a one-day national protest. On the 11th, “all teachers, regardless of the service assigned to them, whether they are teachers or non-teachers and are carried out in person or remotely,” can join the strike, the federation said in a statement.
Mário Nogueira guaranteed that Fenprof keeps “the doors open to dialogue and negotiation” and that, until December 9, the strike can be suspended, if there is an opening by the Government.
“The Minister of Education took office a year and a month ago and was available to meet with the teachers’ union organizations once, on January 22, it has been almost a year now,” recalled the general secretary of Fenprof.
However, the situation has been getting worse: “There are serious problems that affect schools, that affect teachers, students and families and the inability of the Ministry of Education is total and absolute,” warned Mário Nogueira, giving as an example the lack of of teachers in some schools.
The union leader accused those responsible for the Ministry of “inability and incompetence” to respond to the problems of the schools.
Another issue that has concerned the school community is the covid-19 pandemic. Mário Nogueira once again questioned the number of cases in schools presented by the General Directorate of Health and asked the Government to disseminate the list.
“We have like a thousand schools where the virus has passed and it is still overwhelming,” he said, recalling that it is necessary to guarantee the distance between students in the classrooms, “lack of desire” to have smaller classes, “lack of personnel to guarantee cleaning the classrooms, we still have to give adequate answers to the students who are at home ”.
For this reason, Fenprof wants to sit down again with the Ministry to solve problems that affect the school community, such as creating conditions in schools that minimize the risk of contagion.
The change in retirement requirements, the approval of a pre-retirement regime to which teachers adhere, the elimination of abuses and illegalities in the working day, the improvement of working conditions and the recovery of the teaching career counting the entirety of the seniority are some of the demands of teachers.
