'Additional government investments also needed for secondary and vocational education'
The unions and employers in secondary and secondary vocational education want new collective labor agreements to be introduced. Only for the chance of success it is important that the new cabinet makes extra investments in education.
“The requirements of the AOb previously formulated in the manifesto 'Less work pressure, better education' and the Salary step-by-step plan will come back to the collective labor agreement for each sector ”, says AObdirector Ben Hoogenboom.
The social partners in secondary education and mbo have already made agreements for collective bargaining in September and October. The current collective labor agreements in secondary and vocational education have not been canceled and will continue until a new collective labor agreement has been concluded.
Just like in primary education, additional investments are needed in secondary education and MBO to improve the salary of teachers and ensure a lower workload, says Hoogenboom.
Attraction
From an earlier poll that the AOb held among the members about the latest CLA agreements 2016-2017, it appeared that teachers would like a lower workload. This was also reflected in the time expenditure survey and the collective labor agreement survey of the AOb. Teacher shortages are also rising in secondary and senior secondary vocational education and the attractiveness of the teaching profession is declining, Hoogenboom notes. In higher professional education, the discussion is more about the money from the loan system in the form of attracting extra colleagues.
"In the salary step-by-step plan, we named the building blocks of an investment plan we want," says Hoogenboom. In that plan of the AOb stated, among other things, that the government should make room in the 2018 budget for the re-evaluation of the support staff, improving career prospects in all education sectors and removing the backlog caused by the zero line. To achieve this, additional investments are required, according to the AOb.
Staking
On 5 September announced the PO front to go on strike on October 5, 2017 for a fair salary and a lower workload.
