FvOv joins actions
The Federation of Educational Trade Organizations joins the action week of the AOb and FNV Education and Research. FvOv members have announced in a poll that they want to strike on 15 March.
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“Of the members who took part in our poll, 80 to 85 percent were in favor of the campaigns and 60 to 65 percent want to strike,” explains FvOv chairman Jilles Veenstra. “We have considered this as a high willingness to take action and for that reason we agree with the AOb and FNV Education and Research. ” The federation thinks it is a good time to make a fist with the Provincial Council elections approaching.
Additional investments are needed in all sectors. There is a need for major maintenance
Everything indicates that the current coalition will lose its majority in the Senate after the Provincial Council elections of 20 March and must seek support from the opposition. That is the time to get education back to the top of the political priority list. 'As FvOv we endorse the requirements of the AOb and the FNV Education and Research, extra investments are needed in all sectors. There is a need for major maintenance due to low salaries, too high a workload and growing teacher shortages', the federation states. website.
Strike fund
Unlike the unions, the FvOv does not have a strike fund. Chairman Veenstra: "That is why we explicitly asked the question in our poll whether members are willing to strike, knowing that we do not have a strike fund, that turned out to be the case." A number of the associations affiliated with the FvOv will bear the travel costs of its members.
Barricades
Initially, the FvOv did not join the action week of the AOb and FNV Education and Research connected. So it says in the coming Education magazine that Tuesday, February 5 at AObmembers falls on the mat. That magazine had been printed a week earlier, when it was not yet known that the FvOv would also go up the barricades.
