At the request of the Minister: The Teachers' Union has frozen the sanctions in the education system

According to Secretary General Ben-David, the move was made at the request of Education Minister Shasha Bitton and after a meeting with the finance commissioner - with whom a follow-up meeting was scheduled for Sunday, at the end of a month of disruptions in the system.

Uri Sela

23/06/2022

Thursday, 23 June 2022, 17:35 Updated: 17:47

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In the video: Lieberman refers to the housing protest and the teachers' crisis (Photo: Knesset Channel)

The secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, announced today (Thursday) that the sanctions in the education system will be frozen. This is at the request of Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton. Follow-up meeting on Sunday.

"We acceded to the education minister's request and decided to freeze the sanctions," Ben-David said.

"I hope for continued substantive and honest negotiations with the Commissioner for Wages and expect that the rest of the elements in the government and the political system, will also see before their eyes the good of the system and understand that if we do not reach agreements in the coming days we will have to resume the struggle."

"I hope for further substantive and honest negotiations."

Ben David (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Millions of children across the country still remain at home today following the teachers' protest and the suspension of schooling, kindergartens and studios.

This is the second day that teachers' protests are spreading across the country and apart from a small number of localities announcing that they will open kindergartens through assistants - even today, seven days before the end of the school year, parents have had to find solutions for children left without frames.

At the beginning of the month, the Histadrut launched a round of sanctions, in which studies began in kindergartens, schools and middle schools at 10:00, every day in a different district, with the widespread disruptions intended to put pressure on the Ministry of Finance to reach a wage agreement before the end of the school year.

The wage gaps relate to raising the payment for a beginning teacher, with the teachers' union demanding about ten thousand shekels a month and the Ministry of Finance offering less.

Also about the distribution of money - the Ministry of Finance wants to increase the salaries of beginners and reduce the gap from the veterans, while Ben-David insists on raising all teachers.

The Ministry of Finance wants to include the change in the vacation schedule and incentives for outstanding teachers in the current negotiations and sees this as a condition for further talks, but the teachers' union refuses to do so, calling the finance ministry's "dragging its feet."

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