Teachers threaten to strike?
Director General of the Ministry of Education with first reference
Labor disputes by teachers' organizations at the end of each school year, with the face to next year, are a familiar spectacle.
Despite this, the feeling is that this time it is a real crisis, against the background of the formation of a collective agreement.
The director general of the Ministry of Education, on first reference, hopes that the 2023 budget will pass: "For us and for the parents, it is critical"
Liat Ron
11/05/2022
Wednesday, 11 May 2022, 09:17 Updated: 09:45
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After two years in which Israeli children were affected by the opening and closing of schools and kindergartens and distance learning due to the Corona epidemic, which affected the academic sequence and student achievement, the Teachers' Union declared a labor dispute yesterday, which calls into question the opening of the next school year.
The labor dispute is against the backdrop of wage negotiations over the new collective agreement, led by
the secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David
,
in
front of the Ministry of Finance.
"Finance officials are working to torpedo a wage agreement for teaching staff and all this while the education system is on the verge of collapse and in the most difficult time since the establishment of the state," she wrote.
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A strike at this time could cause irreversible damage to an entire generation (Photo: ShutterStock)
What will happen if the government fails to pass a budget?
In an interview to be published tomorrow in Walla, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Dalit Stauber, responds to the threat of the strike
: "The teachers 'union and we are in wage discussions that are supposed to improve teachers' salaries ahead of the new agreement.
All the signs in the field indicate difficulty in recruiting new teachers, perseverance of veterans and signs of attrition.
Beyond that, we are also seeing a decline in college enrollment.
The salary that teachers receive does not reflect the great effort they put in, the hours of work that do not end at the end of the school day and the complex nature of the profession.
The budget increase is not part of the budget of the Ministry of Education and requires the approval of the Treasury, so it is necessary to approve the state budget for next year so that the Treasury knows in what framework it stands.
The budget discussions are scheduled to begin in June - and for us and the parents, it's critical. "
You depend on the transfer of the budget. If the government fails to pass it, studies will be suspended?
"There is a complex combination of wage agreements that ended in a year with no defined budget. We work on all levels. Managing the shortage of teachers is addressed in the immediate term, we make conversions, manage the demand for sabbaticals, and develop attractive frameworks for outstanding graduates.
" "It is a long-term problem. It is not something that can be done in three months. It is a problem that lasts a long time.
And if the government fails to pass the budget and the agreement is not closed, I hope the next school year will open, as teachers are a very responsible body."
Dalit Stauber.
Has known the Ministry of Education for many years (pictured, with the Minister of Education in 2013, Rabbi Shai Firon) (Photo: Muki Schwartz)
And if the budget for next year does not pass, where will the money for salary increases for teachers come from?
"I saw that the State of Israel knows how to organize its budget for national needs and respond to urgent strategic distress. I hope the state understands the importance of opening the education system as contributing to social, mental and national resilience, especially after the corona damage, when children did not study regularly."
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