Negotiator agreement for secondary education: pay increase of 4,5 percent, 1 lesson less
Teachers and support staff in secondary education receive a pay increase of 4,5 percent in two steps. They also receive a one-off payment of 1 percent. Furthermore, from the 2019-2020 school year, teachers will be teaching one hour less per week. That is the negotiator result that the unions and the VO Council have achieved.
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The salaries of teachers and support staff will be increased by 1 percent from June 2018, 2,35, and by a further 1 percent from June 2019, 2,15. In addition, teachers and support staff will receive a one-off payment of 1 percent in October this year.
Less teaching hours
The maximum teaching task for teachers in secondary education will be reduced from 750 clock hours per year in 2019 to 720 clock hours. In practice, this means that teachers spend one hour less in front of the class per week. The space for this is found in the possibilities that the Education Time Act offers schools. “In order to make that possible, the schools have to discuss the structure of education,” says AObnegotiator Henrik de Moel. “I also teach myself, and I think it is quite possible to reduce teaching by one hour per week. After all, lectures, projects, assignments, internships and elective time are now also part of teaching time. That offers a lot of room for new teaching methods and gives you the opportunity to tailor your teaching even better to individual pupils. ”
I myself also teach, and I think it is quite possible to reduce teaching by one hour per week
Teachers can use the time that is freed up by the reduction in teaching hours as development time and as time for broadening and deepening. The available 30 clock hours per year will be increased by the surcharge factor, making a total of 50 hours per year available for development, broadening and deepening.
First step
According to De Moel, the reduction of one lesson hour per week is emphatically a first step. “Together with the VO council, we are now going to lobby politicians to get extra money for a further reduction in the number of hours. Ultimately, as a trade union, we want a teaching task of 20 hours a week.
As a this CLA is accepted, another two to three hours of the lesson task have to be taken off to arrive at those 20 hours. That costs about 180 million euros per lesson hour. That is a lot of money, but it is now time to invest in secondary education. Moreover, it is still much cheaper than abolishing dividend tax.”
Education support staff
In the collective labor agreement more space for training and development of support staff has also been included. Their training budget is aligned with that of teachers: 600 euros per year. “Courses for support staff are no cheaper than those for teachers, so this distinction was nonsense. It is good that we can now equalize that, ”says De Moel. Regional meetings are also organized in conjunction with the labor market platform Voion on career development and the workload of support staff.
The training budget for educational support staff is aligned with that of teachers: 600 euros per year
De Moel is proud of it negotiator result achieved. “It is very nice that the unions and the VO council are now going to The Hague together to demand more money from politics. Secondary school teachers spend more hours in front of the classroom than their colleagues in many other European countries. That has to change, and we are now going to work together to convince politicians of this. ”
The new collective labor agreement will run until 1 October 2019. Download the entire negotiation agreement with all agreements via this link.
Let us know what you think
Questions or remarks? Come to one of the member consultations about the new collective labor agreement, always between 19.30 pm and 21.00 pm at the district offices / FNV trade union house:
- Monday 18 June, AObhead office, St. jacobsstraat 22 in Utrecht
- Tuesday, June 19, AOb-rayon office, Pegasusweg 200 in Rotterdam
- Tuesday, June 19, AObdistrict office, Leonard Springerlaan 23 in Groningen
- Wednesday 20 June, FNV union house, Gotlandstraat 2A in Deventer. This meeting can also be followed via a live stream. Information about this will follow on the AObwebsite at: www.aob.nl / calendar
- Monday 25 June, AObrayon office, Dr. Cuyperslaan 47 in Eindhoven
In addition to the meetings in the country, the AOb as usual a member poll on the collective labor agreement. Which parts do you like, which less and how do you rate the total package? This week, all members of whom we have a correct e-mail address will receive a survey that we have carried out by research agency Regioplan. The poll is anonymous. Do you have questions about the collective labor agreement? Do not mail to Regioplan, but contact the AOb via the questionnaire MyAOb of info@aob.nl
