The Minister of Education, Cristina Uriarte, announced on 18 May that the educational centers would open their doors in the CAV and the anger of the educational community has been great. The unions announced that they would call the plant if conditions are not negotiated and there are no health or safety guarantees, according to the same sources. Arantza Tapia responded that the centers would open the weekend if or if. Now, the Department of Education has opted for another path. STEILAS has criticised the fact that it is "behaving with the highest degree of irresponsibility".

The union has asked that the doors should not be opened because at the moment the schools have neither the capacity nor the means to make a diagnosis of the situation and to establish a protocol that protects workers and students.

Autonomy or hand washing?

On the pretext of autonomy, the Basque Government has handed over to each centre the content and criteria for end-of-course evaluation, and the burden it is placing on the addresses of the centres is not small, but has also delegated health related decisions to them. This may lead, for example, to two centres in the same situation taking decisions against them. “Taking this step is like not taking action and when the administration does not take action leaves those who need it the most,” STEILAS said.

Can the Administration do this?

The trade union recalls that in the case of public centres, a decision of this kind must pass through the Maximum Representation Body: “The Directorate should present in the Supreme Body a proposal for planning based on objective health criteria, and a plan should be voted on that establishes changes in timing, new forms of organization and schedules.” Moreover, STEILAS will leave it to the legal services to study the matter, as it may have a decision that is outside the competence of each centre.