There are 12,000 precarious teachers in the school system, second in Cobas, in all of Sardinia. Over five thousand in the Cagliari area alone with 2,800 substitutes who have worked and perhaps as many who are still waiting and hoping. This morning the teachers returned to the charge with a demonstration in front of the Regional School Office. With the Cobas also the movements "Precari sardi in cattedra" and "Educazione senza prezzo".

A delegation was received by the regional school director Francesco Feliziani. On the agenda of the meeting were the request for a dual channel for placement in roles, the new competition rules (with automated recruitment procedures in focus), qualifying titles, the new rule that allows for the confirmation of support teachers upon request by families, and the management of study permits.

"Competitions are held - explains Andrea De Giorgi, Cobas - and participants don't even know what their position is: they are fished out by the algorithm as a position becomes available. Here the rule seems to be that of precariousness forever. And instead we ask that after three years of teaching there be a permanent placement. Because it is not possible that qualified, eligible and even tenured teachers are or risk being precarious. There is a lack of transparency in recruitment".

The meeting "was useful - adds De Giorgi - even if on some issues the competence of the school offices is limited". Also for this reason the union and movements are thinking of a demonstration in front of the ministry. And in any case of involving the municipalities and the Region. A national strike of Cobas is scheduled for May 7.

And that day the issue of precarious workers will be addressed again. "A very calm meeting," school director Feliziani told Ansa, "during which we provided clarifications on the topics that concern our skills. For the others, it is necessary to find solutions at other levels. But in general it seems to me that we are moving, also through competitions and rankings, towards stabilization, certainly not towards the normalization of precariousness. Of course, we do what the rules allow us to do. But the path seems clear and well-defined to me."