The University of Education in the Center – Closed University
Crowds of people participate in rally held in downtown Athens, today, Saturday, March 29, after the ILM and OLME call.
Once again, teachers are calling for the obvious, emphasizing the immediate need to tackle serious and enlarged problems.
The university is closed due to the rally.
Call by ILO and OLME to the Educational rally
The announcement was issued by the ILO for a call to the rally, to which OLME responded.
As it was mentioned, « unbearable » is the situation in schools, which naturally results in undermining the educational process.
Teachers at the rally in Athens. Kostas Tzoumas/Eurokinissi
The financial conditions of the teachers are the financial conditions, as « the meager salaries that disappear in the first 10 days of the month, with the newcomer getting € 780, the deputy 950 € and on average the permanent 1100 € without gifts, forced us either in the resignation (over 1.2)! As many as the « increases » of the 2nd and the government, they cannot hide the poverty in which we live. «
At the same time, a key demand is the cessation of the disciplinary persecutions of teachers who have been in dimensions of « pandemic » lately, with the announcement stressing that « Government and Ministry of Education are intensifying authoritarianism, challenging acquisition of trade union freedoms and even use it. »
Crowds of people in the educational rally. Kostas Tzoumas/Eurokinissi
Of course, the « eternal » demand is the improvement of incomplete hygiene measures that increase the risk of school units.
« Our industry has for years been dignified the battle for the defense of public school, our children’s educational rights and the support of teachers. We are responsible for our children, in the popular family that strives to educate them daily, we have a responsibility to preserve our pedagogical status and our right to live with dignity from our salary, « the announcement said.
Dimitris Koutsouba’s statement
« We support the teacher’s struggle and their attempt to educate our children in truly adverse conditions of underfunding and intensity of the government’s authoritarianism, which drags over 2,000 teachers in the discipline just because they deny the anti -education criteria of the supposedly evaluation. We express our solidarity in their struggle. We are on their side to stop, finally put an end to the government’s authoritarian downhill and to satisfy all their fair demands, « said Dimitris Koutsoubas, the Pan -Hellenic Education Rally.
