He Business Commission for Teaching and Research Personnel (PDI) showed its “deep concern about the current situation” and underlined the need to “provide an effective response to the precarious situation experienced by this group”.
The workers’ representation called this Friday for a rally in front of the rectorate, coinciding with a collective agreement negotiation meeting, during which they asked “a firm commitment to reducing the significant pay gap existing between the different figures of the PDI and the comparative grievances with other groups of personnel of the Foral Administration”.
In a statement, he expressed his “discomfort with the insufficient funding of the Government of Navarra at UPNAwhich can make it difficult for our Autonomous Community to maintain a quality public university.
The committee, which represents “the 74% of UPNA teaching staff (1,184 people)which is experiencing very precarious economic conditions”, criticized the fact that after the opening of the negotiating table for the agreement in April 2024, “we continue to this day without an agreement and without a clear commitment for the recognition of our demands “.
The PDI calls for “decent salaries for assistant professors”, the “equalization of the number of permanent professors to that of full professors, as established by Organic Law of the University System (LOSU)“, recognition to associate and substitute teachers “of the entire workload involved in university teaching, beyond the teaching of courses and the support of students in tutorials”.
He PDI Collective Labor announced the start of a series of mobilizations with the aim of “making our needs visible and putting pressure on the the management team must sign an agreement worthy of the name and transfer it to negotiations with the Government of Navarre”.
“After the approval of LOSU, which establishes a financing target of 1% of GDP for the university, and within the framework of the development of the Law on the Universities of Navarra, it is time to put an end to the precarious situation that this group has suffered for too many years”, he concluded .
