He Minister of Education of the Government of Navarre, Carlos Gimenocalled the unions so that cancel the strike scheduled for September 26 and indicated that Navarra “is in privileged situation In remunerationIn ratiosIn stabilizationIn personal resourcesIn student/teacher ratio“We are an extremely gifted system, it is a system that has been endowed over the last four years in a significant and relevant way.”
Gimeno indicated that includes “claims trade union organizations, but we understand that it’s not the time and we understand that circumstances do not advise it and, moreover, I believe that The damage to public schools is significant“.
At the press conference following the government session, the advisor said that The parliamentary groups that support the Executive have asked it to make “a gesture” in response to the strike in Education and in response to this, he asked the trade union organisations to “reconsider your decision“.
“The government obviously scrupulously respects the right to strike of trade union organisations, but in this case it considers that This call is disproportionate and will only harm families who choose public education and, most importantly, will violate the fundamental right to education students in public education. As Minister of Education, I am calling for the strike to be stopped,” he said.
Gimeno assured that the department remains “open negotiation path with the Education Sector Council, where all the unions calling for the strike are present.
In any case, the adviser said that the Ministry of Education “is not competent to negotiate a salary increase, that is a matter for the future.” via the general state budgets or in this Community, you must move to the General table and it must obviously be ratified by a provincial law“To work on this issue at the parliamentary level, a strike is not necessary,” he stressed.
Furthermore, Gimeno pointed out that in Navarre, a newly admitted civil servant teacher receives an average salary of 34,278 euros, 307 euros more than the Spanish regional average. “With the exception of the Canary Islands, with specific salaries to compensate for their insularity, Only Cantabria and Castilla-La Mancha are slightly above the Regional Community salary.” he stressed.
Regarding the possibility of applying a linear reduction of ratiosGimeno explained that the Government has already assessed the cost that this measure would entail in all educational stages, estimating it at 131 million euros. “It is a unaffordable amount for the public budget and impossible to undertake in terms of infrastructurespaces that should be deployed in the public network and, of course, the concerted network should also assume this. This is a requirement that we also understand would not improve the quality of the education systemwould not generate progressivity and would perpetuate inequalities by having equality as a parameter and not equity,” he said.
