AOb: Substantial wage increase and paid internships needed in primary education
A salary increase of 14,3 percent and an internship allowance of 750 euros. Those are for AOb/FNV two spearheads in the upcoming collective labor agreement negotiations in primary education.
“Inflation is sky-high,” he says AObdirector Thijs Roovers. “It was 14,3 percent last year. In order not to lose purchasing power, this is also our wage demand for the upcoming collective labor agreement negotiations.” The current collective labor agreement expires April 30.
Pay gap
The wage demand of 14,3 percent for primary education is equal to the wage demand for secondary education. “We have been fighting for ten years against the pay gap between the salary of primary and secondary school teachers. After a lot of actions, that gap has finally closed. Then, of course, we will not allow a new gap to arise. From now on, both education sectors will step up at the same time.”
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Supporters
In addition to the general wage demand of 14,3 percent wil AOb/ FNV that employees in primary education who are in the lower scales for educational assistants are compensated for inflation with an extra wage increase. “People in the lower scales spend a relatively larger part of their salary on daily expenses,” says Roovers. “Those people are therefore hit harder by inflation and we want to compensate for that.”
If we want to make it attractive to follow teacher training, we should simply start paying trainees in education
A second important point in the negotiations, writing AOb/FNV, is a internship allowance of 750 euros (for a full working week, otherwise pro rata). “If you do an internship in education, you often don't get paid,” says Roovers. “While students in other sectors often do receive an internship wage. If we want to make it attractive to follow teacher training – and we really want that, given the teacher shortage – we should also start paying trainees in education.”
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That internship wage does not apply to the LIO internships, for which agreements have already been made. “However, not all employers offer students a 'learning-employment contract',” says Roovers, “which means that the payment of those students falls short. We want all LIO students to receive such an agreement from now on, so that all LIO students receive a decent wage.”
lung covid
A third important point in the negotiations is, what AOb/FNV, a group supplementary insurance against incapacity for work. Roovers: “Employees who end up in the WIA may be confronted with a sharp drop in their income. We see this, among other things, in the victims of lung covid, of whom unfortunately there are many are in education. We want to take out insurance that also applies to employees who have since been dismissed due to illness. They also deserve protection.”
If teaching assistants do the same work as teachers, pay them accordingly
Like the fourth important point AOb/ FNV that teaching assistants and teacher support staff who independently take over groups receive an allowance that supplements their salary to a teacher's salary.
Book voucher
Roovers: “Our starting point is that as a teaching assistant and teacher support worker you should not run a group independently. You don't have the authority for that. But unfortunately you see that, due to the teacher shortage, the assistants and support staff are increasingly standing independently in front of the group. And then get a bunch of flowers or a book voucher for it. That's nonsensical. If people do the same work as a teacher: pay them accordingly.”
Finally, the AOb/FNV a better travel allowance. “Transport has become more expensive,” says Roovers. “It is not the intention that you have to pay extra in order to earn your salary.”
The new collective labor agreement would, what AOb/FNV, should have a term of one year.
