Yaffa Ben-David: "The Treasury has finally put a concrete proposal on the table"
At the end of a meeting between the secretary general of the Teachers' Union and the director of salaries at the Ministry of Finance, Ben-David expressed optimism about the talks between the parties. "There are still significant gaps.
Uri Sela
26/06/2022
Sunday, 26 June 2022, 18:42 Updated: 19:06
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In the video: Lieberman refers to the housing protest and the teachers' crisis (Photo: Knesset Channel)
At the end of a meeting between the secretary general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, and the director of salaries at the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan, it was announced today (Sunday) on behalf of the Histadrut that "the Ministry of Finance has finally put a concrete proposal on the table." "It is decided that tomorrow we will sit down again and try to bridge the
gaps
." The Ministry of Finance said: "We have nothing to add beyond the announcement of the Teachers' Union."
Conducted by the Secretary General with the Commissioner of Wages at the Ministry of Finance.
"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 wage commissioner 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."
"There are still gaps."
Ben David (Photo: Reuven Castro)
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 gaps in the salary issue 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 on the distribution of money - the Ministry of Finance wants to raise mainly 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."
Meanwhile, the director general of the Ministry of Education, Dalit Stauber, attacked the chairman of the teachers' union, Ran Erez, after sharply criticizing the Minister of Education and the reform she sought to pass on in the system.
"You are dismantling the education system and crumbling it. If you do not change your conduct - the school year in post-primary education will not open," Erez threatened a strike.
In response to his letter, Stauber wrote: "The style of statements in your letter is not acceptable, the organization has no veto over pedagogical moves."
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