CLA deployment for MBO: AOb wants to see results in the short term
An increase in salary and a reduction in workload. Those are the main requirements of the AOb in all collective bargaining. Also in MBO. How have the CLA negotiations been progressing so far and where does the AOb on in? AObdriver Tamar van Gelder gives an update.
“We believe that some things need to be improved in the short term in terms of employment in MBO,” says AObnegotiator Tamar van Gelder. "Employers want to look at the long term, and at the moment we are getting closer."
Short-term
"Our short-term spearheads are wages and better agreements about work pressure. We are aiming for a wage increase of 3,5 percent. The employers do not want to make any commitments before the cabinet presents the Spring Memorandum, and it is clear how much money is available comes for MBO, but in other sectors agreements can already be made about wage increases, so it is not impossible, at least according to us."
"As far as the reduction of the workload is concerned: MBO staff already have a budget of 50 hours to fill in as they wish," says Van Gelder: "But that is rather difficult to formulate in the collective labor agreement, so that employees do not have the idea that they can easily claim those hours. As far as we are concerned, that formulation must change quickly. And we also want more attention for the workload of starting teachers."
The same rights
"We also believe that the MBO collective labor agreement should apply to all employees in MBO. So also for flex workers who are hired through payroll constructions, for example. Those employees often accrue little or no pension at the moment, isn't that strange? works in secondary vocational education should have the same rights."
"Finally, we want to investigate, together with the employers, whether more customization is possible. Because MBO colleges are very different: an AOC is completely different from a school for goldsmiths or the Roc van Amsterdam. Can we accommodate in a collective labor agreement? to those differences?”
AObnegotiator Tamar van Gelder recently wrote a blog for the National Education Guide about her experiences with the collective labor agreement negotiations. Read her blog: 'Newbee in union land' via this link.
