Catalan teachers are in an extreme situation. Many of them must travel hundreds of miles from home to fill their assigned position, forcing them to look for a second rental or make three-hour commutes to teach.
For example, Elisabet travels 150 kilometers every day to reach the school where she works: “From my house to school it takes about two hours.. “I leave my house by car to Vic, then by bus to Sagrera, an hour, then a few metro stops.”
Two lucky hours, because in the event of an unforeseen event occurring in one of the four means of transport you use daily, the time increases.
Andrea is in a worse situation, she was sent with the approved exams to Figueras, three hours from home. A distance which forced him to pay a second rent: “You pay rent in your area and you pay rent there. “It’s an expensive area of Girona.”
And that causes an economic drain: “The first month you get paid, you think ‘it’s for the apartment over there, it’s for this one, it’s for the food, it’s for the fuel to come and go’… “.
The numbers don’t work, but she was also forced to make a forced life change: “I gain a place, but I lose my quality of life.”
A resignation that Enric also had to make. From Gandesa to Barcelona, 200 kilometers in between: “Apartments in Barcelona are very limited, prices are very high. This has a direct impact on the standard of living. This swallows up a significant part of the salary, it is a sacrifice which requires maintaining this position.”
And resigning from your position is not an option, as USTEC spokesperson Yolanda Segura explains: “Civil servants cannot resign from office because they are renouncing civil servant status if they do.”
For all this, Their request is to repeal the model decree which modifies the logical order of occupation of positions.
