It is getting busy on the Malieveld
Friday, March 15, it will be busy on the Malieveld in The Hague with the first education-wide campaign. Many primary schools are closed, the number of secondary schools closing their doors is smaller, but is growing.
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From a poll among more than four thousand AObmembers from all education sectors show that many schools for primary and special education will be closed this Friday. At the moment it seems that on average half do not teach. This happens somewhat more in the Randstad - where the teacher shortage is at its worst - and somewhat less in other provinces. Of the AObmembers will come to Malieveld at least a third, other strikers are still thinking about that.
High working pressure
At least twenty schools in secondary education will be closed, the poll shows. The high workload in particular is a reason for strike, according to reactions from the schools that are closing. Most of those strikers go to Malieveld. There are also representatives from almost all schools that remain open to The Hague.
There are currently no negotiations, for a decent collective labor agreement money must first be added
During the hundreds of school visits noticed AObteams in recent weeks that non-members occasionally have doubts about striking, because they think that negotiations are still underway with the cabinet. "That's definitely not the case," he says AObchairman Liesbeth Verheggen clearly. "We are carefully exploring with employers what the scope is for new collective labor agreements, but in primary education, for example, all unions and the PO council wrote together a letter that more money from the cabinet is needed for a decent collective labor agreement. Slob and Van Engelshoven, the entire cabinet, just don't get along. On Friday, we want to make it clear to politicians at the Malieveld that investing in education is really necessary. The shortage disrupts the schools. The lecture halls are packed."
Many students go to Malieveld
There are strikes in MBO and HBO, but not en masse. The universities are very willing to take action, according to signals from FNV Education and Research, WOinActions and the student union LSVB. Many students and staff members of the universities will travel to The Hague on Friday 15 March.
Our members receive a strike benefit that softens the loss of wages
Quarter continues to pay
From the poll below AObmembers also show that about a quarter of the schools or study programs continue to pay during the strike, only in MBO this is less, only 5 percent. Liesbeth Verheggen: "Our members naturally receive a strike benefit that softens the loss of wages. Employers are allowed to withhold, after all, there are strikes. Although we are of course striking for a common goal: investments in education. There are still quite a few employers who feel what I concerns more sympathetic to that cause and the action towards it, whether they decide to withhold wages or not."
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