(Finance) – With the constitution of the new Government and Minister of Education, the renewal of the school contract, expired for 46 months: this is the only public employment contract not yet renewed. A renewal which – as Il Sole 24 Ore points out – is worth over 2 billion to which 5 billion in arrears must also be added.
One of the last acts of the Minister Bianchi – recalls the economic daily – was to move the 340 million for the enhancement of the teaching profession on contract renewal. So, he wonders what the Minister of Education and Merit will do now: will he turn the resources into the national contract or will he go to the clash with the trade unions? Meanwhile, the 340 million are currently blocked, firm on the opinion of the Ministry of Economy which is slow in arriving. Again according to what Il Sole 24 Ore reports, there are many technical and political doubts about the change of destination of the 340 million fund. A third way emerges – Orizzonte Scuola still writes today – that is to pass the allocation of the contract funds from a restriction of destination to the ancillary salary, on the basis of the distribution criteria that the same agreement between the Government and the trade unions should regulate.
In such a scenario Marcello Pacifico, national president of Anief, he does not even want to take into consideration that the new government can move the allocation of the 340 million destined for the renewal of the contract. It would be a very bad debut. “Let’s stop playing with the skin of the school workers – declares the autonomous trade unionist – because faced with an inflation of over 10% in the last year alone, it is shameful to think that the 340 million must be assigned to merit, an outrage given that the coverage for contractual increases is stuck at 4.22%. Instead of changing the fate of a contract already defined and to be closed quickly, it is good that the new minister summons us as soon as possible: we have many dossiers to deal with and the first measures to be taken: in addition to the contract that has expired for 46 months, with the ‘inflation 10 points above and the rules to be reviewed, there is the problem of additional staff, insecurity, mobility and much more “.