They announced it, they did it. As planned and since yesterday Wednesday, December 13, national education teachers, members of three coordinations (tansikyat) are in sit-in protest in front of the headquarters of the regional academy of national education in Casablanca. The agreement of December 10 signed by four unions and the government and which provides for an increase in wages of 1,500 dirhams was rejected en bloc.
“The agreement of December 10 minimized our demands and reduced them to wage increases, knowing that this is not our main demand. This is actually the last thing we ask. We would like the government to dialogue with the coordinations, because it is the voice of the teachers,” declares for Le360 Asmaa Souqoute, of the united coordination of the education body and the school support frameworks.
This teacher considers that the government has minimized their demands and specifies that the coordinations are asking for the withdrawal of the unified status, the development of another status, the integration of contract workers and finally the settlement of subsidiary files. The question of contract workers is at the center of the coordinations’ demands.
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“The contract harms the student first. It is impossible for a teacher who does not believe in his profession to be calm and this has repercussions on his work and the mission assigned to him. We are for preserving the dignity of education and this dignity ultimately is guaranteed by the public service,” says Kamal Ghiam, primary school teacher.
And the student in all this? A victim plagued by successive strikes and seeing the specter of a blank year looming on the horizon? Mohammed Bencheikh, philosophy teacher at Hassan II high school, doesn’t see it that way. “We are sad for the students who for two and a half months have still not returned to class, but why must the teacher accept a unified status which is detrimental to him?” justifies this teacher who prefers to remain optimistic, in the meantime the outcome of the December 14 meeting between the government and the unions. A meeting where unified status was on the menu.
By Hafida Ouajmane and Said Bouchrite
12/14/2023 at 6:49 p.m.
2023-12-14 18:59:48
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