Primary education Gelderland and Overijssel is going down
Many schools in Gelderland and Overijssel are closed because the teachers are going on strike for a better salary. AObdistrict manager Philippe Abbing is calling on the teachers on strike to come to the event in Deventer.
Picture: Fred van Diem
The teachers in Gelderland and Overijssel will take over from their colleagues from Limburg and Noord-Brabant this Wednesday who went on strike on April 13. In the months before, their colleagues also performed North Holland, Utrecht, Flevoland en North Netherlands all action for a better salary.
Many schools are on strike. The Consent foundation, with 32 public primary schools in the municipalities of Enschede, Oldenzaal, Losser and Dinkelland, has announced that the majority of the schools will be closed. “We have three quarters of the response to our inventory. They are all close to two, ”says Consent's secretary of the board. "Parents start teaching at one primary school that remains open." The teachers do not receive a salary that day.
Don't cut it
Director Richard Benneker, of the Stichting Katholiek Onderwijs Twenterand (SKOT) with 13 primary schools, says he will continue to pay the striking teachers. "If I am not cut by the Ministry of Education, I also see no reason to withhold wages." Benneker does estimate that the willingness to strike is slightly lower than previous strikes. "About half to three quarters of our schools are closed."
Director Richard Benneker: "If I am not cut by the Ministry of Education, I see no reason to withhold wages."
All 22 primary schools of the Catholic Education North East Twente foundation will be closed, an employee said. The schools are spread over the municipalities of Dinkelland, Oldenzaal, Beuningen and De Lutte. The public primary schools of the OPO Hof van Twente foundation are also almost all closed. “Except for two,” says an employee of the staff office. Primary schools Markvelde and Stedeke will remain open for a cultural activity week. The teaching staff of those schools want to go on strike a week later. The school board continues to pay the teachers on strike.
In Zwolle, part of the Vivente school group with fifteen schools will be closed. The foundation is still taking stock of exactly how much it concerns. The teachers of this foundation are not paid.
Gelderland
Newspaper The Gelderlander also wrote today that with a few exceptions in the municipalities of Nijmegen, Heumen, and Berg en Dal and the Maas and Walloon schools are closed. For example, 29 of the 32 schools of Conexus will be closed on Wednesday.
Condor director Marthijn Manders, which includes nine primary schools, said in the newspaper that he notices that the willingness to take action remains high. 'The teachers' claim is justified, and that claim is still there,' says Manders.
Through their website, the Archipel schools with locations in the municipalities of Brummen, Voorst and Zutphen also let them know that they are participating in the strike. "An inventory shows that the willingness to strike among our staff is high," said the statement on the website. The foundation sincerely hopes that the relay strike will help to reverse the teacher shortage.
Fantastic program
AObdistrict manager Philippe Abbing gets through the consultants of the AOb because many schools are closed. “Of course we hope to see all teachers during the event at the Beestenmarkt in Deventer. We have a fantastic program. ”
On strike teachers who are members of the AOb are entitled to a strike benefit if they do not receive a salary from their school board by May 30. The AOb has a strike fund from which the lost salary can be partly compensated. The maximum strike payment is currently 61 euros per day tax-free. Look at the questions and answers .
