A union responds to Gimeno’s proposal for Education in Navarre: “It’s still insufficient”

He department of education delivered this Monday to public education unions his “definitive” proposal new pact for improving equity and quality of education and called on them to sign before the 28th prior agreement on commitments. One of the unions was quick to react and is not very satisfied with the measures.

In the proposal, as reported by the Regional Executive in a press release, withdraws measures that affected teachers over 55 and offer extend educational reinforcement to secondary school, address the digital disconnect and transfer to the General Civil Service Council its salary demands.

Among the new features transferred, we find the offer of provision and consolidation of reinforcement hours also for secondary education and basic vocational training for the 2025/2026 school year, which are added to the strengthening of the 1,000 hours already implemented in preschool and primary education.

Also included address the issue of digital disconnection among teachers and the offer of transfer salary improvements to the General Civil Service Table proposed by the signatory unions of the new Education Pact.

At the request of the unions present at the tablethe ministry accepted withdraw from negotiation measures relating to teachers over 55 concerning the hours they devote to so-called personal work, which will not undergo any modification.

The ministry explained to the unions that a new IT tool similar to that which served as the basis for distribution of reinforcement hours in Nursery and Primary, through which it will be determined to which secondary schools the educational reinforcement will be applied, depending on budgetary availability.

As for the salary improvements, education proposed that they be negotiated within the framework of the new Public Administration Staff Status currently being programmed and accepted the union request to transfer to this General Table the salary improvements recommended by the unions signatories of the new Pact, in the framework of the negotiation framework of the said Statute.

Likewise, he committed to asking to be part of it. negotiation so that everything affecting teaching staff is dealt with specifically.

Regarding the programming of the nnew educational pactset November 28 as the date for signing an agreement which takes up the commitments achieved so far. Before April 14, 2025, the new Education Pact would have to be signed, which would incorporate the commitments of this agreement and all the measures agreed during the subsequent negotiation.

ANDEducation reiterated its proposals to reduce ratios in vulnerable centers and general reductions in ratios in early childhood and primary, in addition to the commitment to generally lower ratios in secondary to integrate it into the 2026 budgets.

Mandatory training hours are reduced from 35 to 25, maintaining the flexibility regime agreed in last year’s work tables, and new IT developments will be carried out to reduce the bureaucratic overload of teaching staff.

The document also includes the consolidation of 1,000 hours of educational reinforcement in Early Childhood and Primary centers and the commitment to negotiate and execute for the 2025/2026 school year the new regional decrees on the Organic Regulation of Centers and Days and Hours and the commitment to maintain the path stabilization, increasing from 8% in teaching staff and adopt measures aimed at stabilizing this staff by reducing temporary employment.

HER’S RESPONSE

For his part, The ELA union was quick to give its opinion about this proposal and issued a statement. “Once again, the measures presented by the Ministry of Education are insufficient,” they deplore.

In this sense, they believe that “the drop in ratios Not only is it not for all levels, but it is not close to the numbers requested by the unions. » And they go further: “It will not take repeaters into account when they are implemented. Totally absurd.” “The proposals also do not include measures to recover the purchasing power lost by teachers in recent years.”

On the side of the union, they indicated that “the Government of Navarra has in its hands the increased investment in education and also the rest of the parliamentary groups”.

Faced with “this lack of satisfactory response from the Ministry of Education”, ALS urged to Navarrese teachers “for keep moving forward for their labor rights and citizens in general for the quality of public education. » ELA has always supported “the strike as the main tool to advance rights”, and for this reason, it asks all teachers to “continue to fight for decent working conditions”. .