Personnel OGVO wants to quickly discuss requirements with management
The staff of the Venlo & Surroundings (OGVO) school group wants to talk to managers on 13 November about, among other things, the culture of fear in schools. If the board does not accept the invitation, the OGVO teachers want the unions to scale up the campaigns further.
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This is evident from a letter sent today from the staff to the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board and the site directors. On October 23, it was already announced that staff would like to discuss the problems they encounter with managers. The date is now known and the staff has formulated concrete requirements to which the board must respond.
"The agenda will be devoted to the problems that have recently led to the necessary tensions on the work floor," the staff wrote in the letter. It's not just about scheduling extra lessons, the teachers emphasize.
This invitation is the ultimate request from the staff to talk to each other
The staff requires 'special' attention for three points. They want OGVO to stop appointing teachers to the subsidiary foundation as of January 1, 2019. This is a kind of temporary employment structure in which teachers are not immediately employed by OGVO. They also want to talk about the task policy and they want the board to come up with a solid plan to tackle the culture of fear.
Other points
In addition to these three main points, the letter's appendix contains a list of other points to which the staff want the board to respond. For example, they want the task letters for the summer holidays to be established, OGVO must actually use and implement the definition of class time and allocate the savings leave as agreed. Starters must also work fewer hours as described in the CLA for secondary education and the bapo leave for older teachers must be respected for sustainable employability.
"This invitation is the ultimate request from the staff to enter into dialogue with each other," said the OGVO staff representation in their letter.
