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The Teachers ‘Initiative South Tyrol explained in an open letter why the negotiations on the teachers’ contract were taking place have burst. A guest post.
The South Tyrol Teachers’ Initiative has published an open letter.
In it, the initiative analyzes the reasons for the failure of the negotiations on the teacher contract.
The open letter is signed DAILY NEWSPAPER online Published as a guest article by Thomas Brachetti, Sabine Dalvai, Markus Klammer, Florian Leimgruber, Armin Monsorno, Monika Niederwieser, Josef Oberhollenzer, Hannes Petermair, Rosina Ruatti, Anny Tauber and Helga Tschurtschenthaler.
This is the letter:
„It takes a little time to understand the rules of the game.
On closer inspection, there is a clear program behind what at first looks like incompetence or failure in the conduct of negotiations in the country. It was not until March 27, 2020 that an apparently harmless passage was inserted into the ‘Omnibus Act’, which provides for “collective agreement proposals” negotiated under the umbrella of “legal security” to be submitted to the state’s inspection body for assessment. That has now happened with the agreement on the IT bonus for teachers. And now the bureaucrats Alexander Steiner, Albrecht Matzneller and Co, who finally signed the contract, use this as a reason to consider the text version they had previously negotiated as legally doubtful and to abandon it with reference to the specter of the audit office.
The whole thing is a case study of instrumental legislation and arbitrary administration, by means of which politics delegates its responsibility to an imaginary authority in order to continue as before with the previous practice of unjust distribution of budget funds.
However, this would have to be corrected in order to reach the amount of 80 million calculated by the unions for equal treatment of state teachers with those of the state vocational schools within three years.
In South Tyrol everything that does not look like entrepreneurship is considered a cost factor and is capped. Education, school, culture and social affairs represent an opposite world to that of the economy.
Only the latter is granted privileged access to the state budget. And what interests prevail can be seen in the debate about spatial planning, in the promotion of agriculture with 200 million annually and, since the first Kompatscher government, in lowering sales tax by 100 million annually for industrial companies. At the same time, the one-sided accumulation of wealth through returns on capital, land and real estate is growing, so that Matthew’s complaint is literally fulfilled: ‘He who has will be given’ (Matt. 13:12).
And now in the Corona crisis, in a time of extraordinary challenges, the state government lacks the sensitivity to the numerous disparities and obviously also the authority to orient itself in the flood of many justified and numerous outrageous demands and to act in a balancing manner. Now that the profits of the noughties and tens have been privatized, the pandemic’s financial consequences are now being shared among everyone. And it is allowed that, quite undifferentiated, high earners and “Furbetti” reach into the auxiliary pot that is intended for the injured party.
Failure to comply with what the apprenticeship professions are entitled to according to the general rules of equal treatment and which in any case can no longer be paid for after ten years’ delay is nothing more than a robbery on the resource budget of education and school. One must not believe that this will have no consequences. But the price for it does not appear in the balance sheet of the state budget today. “
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