Education.. Independent unions confirm that the strike on the 28th and 29th is a strike of dignity – New Algeria

I confirmed Independent unions For the National Education Sector, the decision to strike on April 28 and 29 is not considered a “bread” strike or a “grant” strike, despite the terrible collapse of the purchasing power that teachers are experiencing today and the frightening social situation that all teachers have reached. Rather, it is a strike of dignity and restoration of the status of teacher educators.

According to a statement by the independent teachers’ unions Education sector Al-Wataniya holds “elhiwar us” a copy of it, in appreciation of the President of the Republic’s repeated assurances and on more than one occasion of the necessity of advancing the professorial profession and raising the status of teacher educators and placing them at the highest ranks, with this clearly evident in the order to postpone the basic law regarding professors twice on 24 February. December 2023 AD and February 18, 2024 AD respectively, for the purpose of enriching, reviewing and correcting in depth, as well as hearing new offers, according to what was mentioned in the statements of the Councils of Ministers.

The statement added that it is our rejection of all forms and practices of intransigence, exclusion and marginalization practiced by officials of the Ministry of National Education in their dealings with the file of the basic law relating to the professor, unlike other ministerial sectors, thus categorically refusing to respond to the raised request of the professors, which is to hand over a copy of the draft basic law relating to the professor in question. At the level of cabinets.

The source highlighted that, after confirming the growing infringement on rights, with the Ministry of National Education officials’ insistence on imposing a policy of exclusivity in the position and decision, and their persistence in refusing to hand us a copy of the project being presented at the level of the government committee and councils of ministers, despite the Minister of Education’s pledge to inform us of it and hand over to us a copy of it on October 25, 2021, before… Submit it to the government. It rejected all aspects of dialogue and discussion, especially those related to enriching and reviewing classifications in ranks and the tasks assigned to them, despite the insistence of the professors’ unions present in all the meetings organized by the Ministry of National Education with the unions, which raised doubts and deepened the feeling of injustice and arbitrariness in the classification of professors and the compensation system.

Despite the series of explanatory and warning statements about the repercussions of the flawed policies being pursued and the consequences of that on the sector by pushing it into more unrest, complaint, congestion, blockage, and undermining the constitutionally guaranteed social partnership.

We anticipate that this “mystery” law will inevitably be unfair to teaching staff and affect their status and gains, thereby mortgaging the rights of subsequent generations for decades to come by missing the historic opportunity for the President of the Republic to adopt an order to enact a special law for professors and grant professorships the proper and deserved status.

The statement said that the decision to strike came after exhausting all attempts and efforts aimed at dissuading the ministry from its arbitrary, exclusionary approach in dealing with the demands of the teachers’ union bloc, and through them all female and male professors in the institutions.

The statement stressed that the decision to strike on April 28 and 29 is not considered a “bread” strike or a “grant” strike, despite the terrible collapse of the purchasing power that professors are experiencing today and the frightening social situation that all professors have reached. Rather, it is a strike of dignity and restoration of the status of the teacher educator who has stood tall. He pays the price for his adherence to the teaching profession as a service to the student in the classroom, to benefit from his experiences and the accumulation of his path, and to achieve the goals, goals and objectives of the educational and educational process in the Algerian state project.

He highlighted that the decision to strike is a historical moment that we had to draw the attention of the higher authorities and everyone who cares about the public school. It came after more than two years of our attempts to give priority to the policy of dialogue and consultation with the ministry, which was stubborn and refused to pursue anything other than exclusion, marginalization, and the policy of imposing a fait accompli and escaping forward.

The source added that the strike also came in order to record the position of all male and female professors who reject the single-opinion policy and the narrow, irrational and unappreciative view of the professors’ efforts and their suffering that they have begun to experience inside and outside the department as a result of the educational policies adopted recently, with ill-considered and calculated consequences in the pedagogical and social fields, which has violated the school’s goals and objectives. The social status of teachers.

Finally, the statement noted that the strike on April 28 and 29 aims to restore the proper status of the professor-educator and to stand as an impenetrable barrier against all practices and repeated attempts to insult him and belittle his merit and importance and the noble educational mission that he oversees.