The new wave of protests by teachers this Tuesday with main roads blocked, especially in the accesses to Barcelona. Starting at 7 a.m., different groups of pickets have blocked the entrances to the city along the ring roads, blocking the Trinitat and Llobregat junctions, in addition to cutting off the Dalt ring road in both directions at Santa Coloma and in Mundet and Gran Via at La Campana. Beyond the capital, there are also cuts on the C-31 in L’Hospitalet, the C-32 in Mataró in both directions and the C-17 in Vic. After 8 o’clock, the blockade to Barcelona had been lifted, but it has caused kilometer-long delays.
The teachers are thus leading a new fight with the Government to demand improvements in employment, with one that aspires, once again, to be massive. During the morning, two marches will start from Plaza Espanya and from El Clot, to converge in Plaza Urquinaona, and then begin the demonstration to Plaza Sant Jaume.
Within this month of strike, They will be on May 12 and 27, and June 5, which coincide with the start and closure of the new wave of protests. The rest of the days, the strikes will be territorial. It is in the hands of the Government to prevent this calendar from being carried out. After weeks of reluctance, the Department of Education finally met at a sectoral table “to share ways to redirect the situation,” according to Minister Esther Niubó this Monday.
🔴⚫️Vaga Educational to all of Catalonia
👉Road cuts in Barcelona and southern Barcelona
📸Round of Dalt at the height of Mundet
📸Gran Via in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat✊🏽Negotiate again or we block everything‼️
💪Vacancy, Vacancy i Vacancy!!
🔥Let’s respect each other. Let’s get back what’s ours🔥— CGT Education 🚩🏴 (@CGTEnsenyament)
This Tuesday, teachers from public and subsidized schools (from 0 to 18 years old), labor personnel and all types of workers from educational centers are invited, from early childhood educators, educators or social integrators, special education, administrative staff, maintenance or cleaning personnel and dining room monitors.
The unrest of the teachers already broke out in February, and to avoid a new massive strike in March, to invest 2,000 million in five years, which takes the form of a 30% increase in the salary supplement (800 euros more per year), eliminating excess ratios in the institutes, 500 new staffing or the reduction of bureaucracy, among others.
and the spirits of the group flared even more. The majority unions demand a greater salary increase to recover the purchasing power lost in recent years, an effective reduction in ratios or more staff increases. This is precisely the main request of teachers who work in classrooms, who are overwhelmed by such a diversity of students.
More than a thousand centers without excursions
One of the pressure measures that is generating the most stir is the decision to suspend excursions and get-togethers for the next academic year. The initiative is spreading like oil and currently more than a thousand – out of a total of 2,400 public schools and institutes – have already joined the initiative; the last to do so, the thirty centers in Terrassa, which yesterday joined en bloc.
