AOb demands broad improvements for collective agreement for secondary education
A wage requirement of 5 percent, a maximum teaching assignment of 19 hours per week for teachers, a right to a higher salary scale for support staff, and extra attention to the position of the VSO. Those are some requirements AOb and FNV Education & Research are entering collective bargaining in secondary education.
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“Now that the economy is doing well again, after years of zero-line and wage moderation, it is high time to invest in teaching staff again,” says AOb- Henrik de Moel driver. “Teachers and support staff in secondary education run out of fire every day to provide good education for nearly a million students. This important work should be better appreciated. ”
Thirteenth month
Part of the 5 percent wage margin can be used for the realization of a full thirteenth month, according to the CLA deployment recently launched by the AObSector Council has been established.
The workload must also be reduced. “In the previous collective labor agreement, we made an agreement about reducing the number of hours that colleagues spend in class,” says de Moel. "But the way in which this agreement is given shape in many schools does not sufficiently reduce the workload."
That is why the aim in the coming collective bargaining negotiations is to limit the maximum teaching task to 19 clock hours per week. And after that it has to drop to 17 clock hours per week in a few years. De Moel: “Secondary education has the highest percentage of burnout complaints in the Netherlands. If secondary education is to be an attractive and healthy workplace, then the workload really has to be reduced. ”
A schedule-free day brings air into a full-time working week
A full-time working teacher with a maximum of teaching duties should be in accordance with the AOb and FNV O&O are entitled to one lesson-free day per week. That day can then be spent on preparation, after-work and educational development.
“This measure should make it more attractive to work full-time,” says De Moel. “The teacher shortage in secondary education will increase in the coming years. That shortage - and the use of unauthorized people - can be reduced if more part-timers expand their appointment. ” However, the latter does not happen because many people work part-time to keep their job. De Moel: "Such a schedule-free day brings air into a full-time working week, and that makes working full-time more attractive."
Supporters
Providing good education is also impossible without the education support staff (oop). De Moel: “We therefore want to give an extra impulse to the career and development opportunities of oopers. As a first step, the oop features should be re-evaluated. In addition, we want oops up to and including scale 9 to be entitled to an extension in the next higher salary scale. ”
vsso
De AOb and FNV O&O also want employers in secondary education to offer collective disability insurance to all their staff. In addition, a starting teacher must be entitled to a mentor for the first and second year, and employers must be obliged to place temporary workers with the ABP pension provision. And teachers in special secondary education should fall under the collective labor agreement for secondary education, instead of under the collective agreement for primary education.
Continuing education and training
Finally, further training and further training of teaching staff must be promoted. To this end, school boards should agree on an annual training plan for the entire institution with the HR staff. “Until now, training activities have often been offered incoherently,” says De Moel. “Good, structured training promotes professionalization and the acquisition of extra powers. And that in turn reduces the use of unauthorized persons. All of this is good for education and therefore for the students - and that is what we ultimately do it for. ”
