First lesson in the introduction to salary agreements: don't believe the promises (photo: ShutterStock)
While
the chairman of the teachers' organization, Ran Erez
, shuts down the studies in the high schools, demanding to raise the salary of the beginning teachers to NIS 12,000, and promises that if his demand is not met the strike will expand, we set out to check what is happening with the beginning teachers in the elementary and middle schools, who received This month, for the first time, the improved slip after the collective agreement signed at the end of last August.
Due to the shortage of teachers and out of a desire to attract quality personnel to teaching, one of the main demands in the teachers' union's negotiations with the Treasury was a significant increase in the salary of beginning teachers.
Those who watched the victory announcements after the negotiations, could have had the impression that the teachers achieved a great achievement with the Treasury - in exchange for releasing their finger from the strike trigger, but in practice the increase amounts to 740 NIS gross, an amount that stunned many of them.
According to the agreement, the salary of beginning teachers should increase in two increments up to the amount of 9,000 shekels: the first in January 2023, so a teacher starting his first year will receive 8,207 shekels, and the second in September 2023, when his salary will be 9,000.
Since these are only beginning teachers who started working last September, and are in their first year, teachers who have been in the system for up to ten years and are considered "beginner teachers" during this period, still receive significantly lower salaries.
One of them summed up the disappointment of the slip, "In four private lessons I get more", and another wrote a post on Facebook: "Good morning or not so much. Am I the only one who opened the slip and found out that there was no agreement and no shoes? Not only that they cleared my advance and in addition additions and allowances to the coffers Pension, education fund, social security and health tax, instead of getting 6500 net, I got 4,000, for 100% job, level 2.5, in 'Ofek Hadash', 6 years in the system. A single mother with three children. A great start to the month."
The beginning teachers pinned their hopes on the achievements of the negotiations with the Treasury, but were amazed when they saw the slip (Photo: ShutterStock)
fraud
"They worked on us," says Levala L., father of three daughters, a beginning teacher from the central region.
"At the end of the day, the whole story is political. The system is in trouble, because people don't want to be teachers. They promised us a NIS 2,000 increase and in the end it ended up being NIS 740 gross, which comes out to me about NIS 500 a month.
"I am considered a beginning teacher even though I am already eight Years in the system and I work around the clock, 114% full time, with my finger on the pulse to generate as much as possible from the business.
At the end of the month I receive NIS 8,400 with a maximum of degrees, further training, three rewards as an educator, ICT coordinator and traffic education coordinator, and I am part of the management.
When half of the amount goes to rent, it's a job for the eyes.
Friends my age and with similar abilities to mine, earn three or four times more than me, that's how hard it is to remain a teacher."
What do you intend to do?
"This is a question I wake up with every morning. And then I get to class and look into the eyes of my students, who are like my children, and think, how can I leave them like this? After all, it's not their fault. They know how much I earn and when I ask them what they want to be when they grow up Grown up, they don't even think about being teachers. When I come home and I look at my daughters, I'm torn, because they deserve more."
All of this is accompanied by a letter written by teacher Alon Shilan to the parents of the class he teaches a few days ago: "Yesterday we received salaries. My salary did not exceed the minimum. Every month we are promised a salary increase. We are already five months after the start of the school year and every month my salary only goes down I'm sharing with you, because I feel it's unfair to the children, I can't concentrate on anything - except how I survive the month. Right now I've decided I'm not coming to school. I'm taking the next week to decide how to continue."
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