Negotiations CLA for secondary education suspended
Talks for a new CLA for secondary education have been suspended indefinitely. The AOb, the other unions and the employers' organization VO Council want to await the cabinet formation. More structural funding is needed for secondary education, according to AObdirector Henrik de Moel.
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De Moel is on behalf of the AOb at the consultation table in secondary education. Since last January, negotiations had started to arrive at a new collective labor agreement.
Investments
“We come to the conclusion that it is not possible to arrive at a good package of agreements,” says De Moel. That is why the education unions and the employers' organization VO Council are making an urgent appeal to the future cabinet to invest in secondary education. Investments should ensure that the quality of education improves, the inequality of opportunities diminishes, lecturers are given more time and professional space and the workload decreases. De Moel: “Our colleagues find the workload a major problem. You can solve this in various ways, for example smaller classes, but then structurally money is needed for this, ”says de AOb-driver.
We come to the conclusion that it is not possible to arrive at a good package of agreements
Incidental
Recently presented caretaker education ministers Ingrid van Engelshoven and Arie Slob the National Education Programme. A package of 8,5 billion euros that goes to education as a whole. “This is incidental money and is mainly intended to eliminate educational arrears,” says De Moel. "A theme like the workload needs to be tackled thoroughly."
Effort
De AOb wants during these negotiations agree on a substantial wage increase, reduce the workload and make agreements on a life-stage-conscious personnel policy for all age groups. For example, a generation pact under which older colleagues can continue to work in a healthy manner and continued payment of wages for partners who take partner leave when their child is born.
It is still unclear when the educational organizations will continue to talk. The current collective labor agreement has been tacitly renewed and will run until the end of this calendar year. All agreements from that collective labor agreement therefore still apply to all teaching staff. "We want to conclude a collective labor agreement that ensures improvements in the workplace," says De Moel. "We are committed to this. If there are further developments, we will come back to our members."
