ETUCE European Trade Union Committee for Education EI European Region Education International Internationale de l'Education Internacional de la Educación TO: F.E.CC.OO and FETE-UGT, ETUCE Members in Spain http://www.ei-ie.org Brussels, 23 March 2015 EUROPEAN REGIONETUCE President Christine BLOWER Vice-Presidents Odile CORDELIER Walter DRESSCHER Paula ENGWALL Andreas KELLER Galina MERKULOVA Branimir STRUKELJ 5, Bd du Roi Albert II, 9th 1210 Brussels, Belgium Tel +32 2 224 06 91/92 Fax +32 2 224 06 94 [email protected] http://www.csee-etuce.org European Director Martin RØMER Treasurer Mike JENNINGS Ref.: MR/AKR/9786 Subject: Solidarity with the ETUCE member organisation F.E.CC.OO and FETE-UGT Dear colleagues, ETUCE, the EI European Region, expresses strong solidarity with its member organisations in Spain, F.E.CC.OO and FETE-UGT, for their participation in today’s strike action. You have joined the "Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública", an alliance of organisations who have committed themselves to protect the public education system in Spain. The Plataforma called for this protest action to send a clear sign to the government and the public that quality education is at stake. Participating in the action, you warn strongly about the deteriorating situation in Spain’s higher education system. According to you, the government passed recent reforms with concern for the higher education sector without any involvement of the social partners but using the power of three royal decrees instead. Apparently, these reforms could seriously affect Spain’s university system with regards to the provision of funds as well as to the employment situation at universities. Furthermore, this development leads to a situation where private universities would again be advantaged over public universities. The reforms have apparently also brought new regulations impacting on the teaching certification system which could threaten the quality of education even more. For the people protesting today it is about time to protect their sector. This is why the teacher unions and other education stakeholders do jointly take this drastic step today which shall draw the public’s attention to the threat posed to education at public universities. ETUCE hopes that the government will then make a more responsible step with regard to the imminent threats to quality in education. Strengthening the sector rather than ignoring the trade unions’ views on sectoral issues are important to Spain’s educational and economic future. ETUCE supports your demands which include the involvement of the university community in any possible future reform concerning the university system. You rightly turn against deregulation and flexibility in the establishment of schools and universities, against the facilitation of accreditations and against changes which affect the funding of public universities. With this action, you express your opposition against the threats to public education, democracy and education quality. ETUCE hopes for a reversal from this unsustainable situation and urges the Spanish government to co-operate with the teacher trade unions to guarantee best quality education for all students. ETUCE will keep supporting you in your efforts to fight for the quality of the public higher education. Please, feel free to use this message with government officials or the media. In solidarity, Martin Rømer European Director The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) is the European Region of Education International, the global umbrella organisation of teacher unions. It represents 129 teacher unions in Europe, i.e. more than 11 million teachers from all levels of the education sector (pre-primary, primary, secondary & higher education, vocational education & training) in all countries of Europe. ETUCE is a social partner in education at EU level and a trade union federation of the ETUC, the European Trade Union Confederation.
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