Strike day, Thursday 31 October , throughout Italy and also in Sardinia for the Education and Research sector: a fair contract and stable work are among the motivations at the heart of the mobilization proclaimed by Flc Cgil .
On the island, pickets are planned starting at 10am, in Villanovafranca , in Piazza Risorgimento, in Oristano in Piazza Eleonora d'Arborea, in Nuoro in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele and in Santa Teresa Gallura , in front of the comprehensive institute.
"Those who will be crossing their arms will be the workers of schools, universities, research institutes, academies, conservatories and non-state schools with Aninsei contracts", explains the regional secretary of Flc Cgil Emanuela Valurta, underlining that the reasons for the strike are substantiated by the cuts to all sectors of knowledge foreseen in the budget law of the Meloni government.
"In particular, the effects of the maneuver would be unloaded on the University, Research and Higher Education in Art and Music, with a 5 percent cut in turnover that would deny any prospect of stabilization for thousands of precarious workers ," explains Valurta. In addition to this, the government would like to impose a sharp cut in schools of 5,660 teachers and 2,174 ATA workers , "a reduction that will worsen the already serious conditions in which school activities are carried out."
"All this is happening - the unions add - at a time when the PNRR projects dedicated to the school system should be getting underway but schools are having great difficulty in carrying out the assigned projects precisely because of the lack of staff ."
Things are no better on the contractual front: "No additional resources, despite inflation at 18% which has eroded the purchasing power of wages in the last three years."
The personnel of the Education and Research sectors will have to make do with the meager funding already provided, which barely covers a third of inflation for the three-year period and which, for schools, provides minimal increases (last year 80 euros gross per month and this year 55) and what's more only for teachers. "In this way - denounces the regional secretary Flc Cgil - we continue to perpetrate an ignoble discrimination against over 200 thousand workers who guarantee, like teachers, the functionality of services in schools".
"It is essential to value the work of the staff also from a salary point of view - concludes Emanuela Valurta - it is not enough to be indignant when the OECD says that Italy is the country that pays teachers the least, we need to dedicate more resources to contracts and stabilize temporary workers, because a country that does not invest in knowledge has no future".
(Online Union)
