AOb wants equal pay flexible and permanent work in higher professional education
De AOb this afternoon exchanged the commitment to new collective bargaining in higher professional education with the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences. The major themes are: workload, salary and flex.
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The real negotiations will start in early 2018 and the unions hope to eventually conclude a collective labor agreement for one year. “There will also be a fight for talent in higher professional education,” says Roelf van der Ploeg on behalf of the AOb negotiates for the CLA-HBO. “Things need to be tackled so that it remains attractive to work in the sector.”
Salary is an important point. The AOb demands a structural salary increase of 3,5 percent. “The salary must do justice to the teaching staff and the years of arrears,” says Van der Ploeg.
Reduce flex work
De AOb also wants to reduce flexible work in higher professional education. Van der Ploeg: “The current collective labor agreement contains a preamble with wonderful intentions. Only this has not led to a decline in flex work. ” Many employees with temporary contracts lead to a higher workload for HBO lecturers in permanent employment. “They have to work in a carousel of temporary colleagues. And it's simple: students benefit from regular faces. Colleges too often use flex work to pass the risks on to individuals. "
AObnegotiator Roelf van der Ploeg: “Flexible work leads to a higher workload for HBO lecturers. They have to work a carousel of temporary colleagues. And it's simple: students benefit from regular faces. ”
According to the union, temporary workers must earn as much as someone with permanent employment. For example, these employees must be covered by the ABP pension scheme. “School boards then pay about 15 percent more for a temporary worker. It makes flexible working more expensive, which is exactly what we want and we want an equal pay for the same work as permanent employees. ”
In the bet, the AOb also ideas for work pressure relief. “The high workload remains a problem,” says de AOb-negotiator. The AOb therefore wants to stipulate in the new collective labor agreement that starting teachers spend less time in the classroom during the first year: a maximum of 660 minutes per week. This gradually increases over the years.
Schedules
“We also want to schedule clear frameworks around the timetable, especially the connection of lessons,” says Van der Ploeg. It may now be the case that a teacher teaches in the morning, is off in the afternoon and still has to give evening lectures. “Then you are busy all day, but the employer records eight hours of work because you have been 'free'. Lecturers are often the closing item for timetables, not everywhere, but we see that it occurs. ”
The unions would also like to make agreements with the employers' organization about the money that will be released because the loan system has been introduced. "The intention is that it will go to the primary process, but we would like to have that on paper."
Employers
Employers in higher vocational education also expressed their commitment to the new collective labor agreement negotiations. Van der Ploeg: "Their commitment differs greatly from ours. It is particularly striking that the Association of Universities of Applied Sciences wants to conclude a two-year collective labor agreement, but that the wage section is missing. It will therefore require some negotiations."
Know more about the deployment of the AOb for the new collective labor agreement negotiations? Read the letter with all the details via this link.
