Over 30,000 CAPV non-university public education workers are on strike: teachers, educators and management staff of the Haurreskolak Consortium, special education educators in schools and cooks and cleaners of the education department.

LAB, STEILAS and ELA draw the attention of thousands of people at the morning demonstration in Vitoria. At 18:00 there will also be demonstrations in Bilbao, Donostia and Vitoria.

On 30 November, the first day of strike was held, and in the same vein, they said aloud “no to this draft Education Act”. “We want to influence the Education Act and the changes in the education system, and that for there to be a possible education law will be that built with the staff,” the unions said before the Basque Parliament.

“With the objective of a public education system, Euskaldun and its own, we will continue to mobilize to promote the necessary changes in the educational system. We do not need laws, decrees or mandates to perpetuate the current system, we have to overcome the dual model and take into account the working conditions and jobs of workers", they add.

Claims

The unions have summed up their demands in ten demands: to focus the public; to deal with segregation and ensure social cohesion; to establish a framework for publication and a general and consensual regulation; to have their own education law; to have sufficient investment and resources; to put the Basque country at the centre; to establish concrete mechanisms of control and obligations; to guarantee the employment and adequate working conditions of all the workers in the educational system; to be outside the leadership of the participative markets.

What can we expect from the draft to the law?

Precisely this week we have addressed the issue in the weekly ARGIA and have summarized the keys and details of the possible changes from the draft bill to the latest version, in the next report.