Put your signature: never again a wage gap for primary education!
The cabinet offers a 5 percent wage increase - that is not nearly enough to keep up with inflation. Furthermore, a new pay gap with secondary education is lurking. So sign up now for more.
Is it already hanging in the staff room at your school: the signature list for a just wage increase? No? Print the signature list and the corresponding flyer then hang them up next to each other and ask all your colleagues to sign too. Because a wage increase is desperately needed to keep up with inflation.
We have fought very hard for years for a fair salary. We should not allow that to be taken away from us again this year
“Outside of education, wages are currently often rising in line with inflation,” says AObdirector Thijs Roovers. “Then wages in education should not lag behind. We have fought very hard for a fair salary in recent years, and that finally paid off last year. Salaries in primary education were finally raised - the backlog of decades had been made up. We should not allow that to be taken away from us again this year.”
Pay gap
It carries on secondary education already in action for a fair wage increase. Then primary education cannot be left behind. Roovers: “Last year's salary increase has finally closed the pay gap – the difference in salary between primary and secondary education. If the wage increases now diverge, we will immediately have a new pay gap. We must not let that happen. That is why we are now working together with secondary education. Their pay rise is ours – and vice versa. And we go for 12 percent. "
Watch the video of AObdirectors Thijs Roovers and Simone Fomenko:
Finally, a wage increase is needed to ensure that wages in education do not fall behind wages in business again. Because that only makes the teacher shortages worse. Roovers: "Nearly 65 percent of primary schools outside the big cities are struggling with staff shortages. In the big cities that is 90 percent. The last thing we have to do is make working in education more financially unattractive."
GALLERY
Therefore: demand a good wage increase! Look at the action page, download the signature list and the corresponding flyer, hang them up in your school, discuss them with your colleagues. Sign your signature and encourage as many colleagues as possible to do the same. Take a picture of the signature list and hand it in on the action page.
Court pond
The trade unions in education are also organizing an action in The Hague on 16 June. Come to the Hofvijver between 12.00:12.30 and 12:XNUMX p.m., opposite the tower where the Council of Ministers meets. “Our ultimatum to the cabinet also expires on that date,” says Roovers. "If we don't get a XNUMX percent wage increase, we'll go on strike in the fall."
Do you also want a fair wage increase? Join the AOb! We stand up for your interests - and together we are stronger. (And the first three months are free too)
