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Early childhood educators and primary and secondary school teachers, spanning both classroom and distance learning, will go on a national strike tomorrow Friday.
According to the Executive Digest found in Fenprof, “given the discontent in the sector”, adherence is expected in line with the “great discontent” that prevails among professionals who hope to see the government open enough to return to the necessary negotiations.
This strike will have an impact on schools in the north and south of the country and some are already notifying parents or guardians that, due to the strike, “it may not be possible to guarantee normal operation.” In other words, in the absence of teachers, schools, with only non-teaching staff, will not be able to function.
The decision to go on strike was announced 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 notice of strike, but also make one last effort to open avenues for dialogue ”, on November 27.
According to the general secretary of Fenprof, Mário Nogueira, 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, academic or non-academic and present 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 Fenprof’s general secretary.
However, the situation has been getting worse: “There are very serious problems that affect schools, that affect teachers, students and families and the inability of the Ministry of Education is total and absolute,” said Mário Nogueira, giving as an example the lack 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 appealed to the Government to disseminate the list.
“We have like a thousand schools where the virus has passed and it is still overwhelming,” he said, noting that there is a lack of distance between students in 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 with the Ministry again 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.
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