Reactions continue to come due to the inadequacy of the Teaching Profession Law. Eğitim-Bir-Sen decided that the teachers should take action by not attending their first lessons in order to regulate the Vocational Law and to eliminate its deficiencies. Yesterday, this action was carried out all over Turkey.
Egitim-Bir-Sen Union organized an action by teachers all over Turkey by not attending their first lessons. In the press statements made in the provinces after the action, it was jointly requested to update the Teaching Profession Law. In the statement, “At the date the law came into force, we expressed that this law includes important personal rights such as re-activating the career steps, bringing an increase in wages and additional degrees to specialists and head teachers, abolishing the written exam in the nomination process, giving 3600 additional indicators to teachers, and in this respect, it met some expectations and demands of our teachers and that it was a positive first step in this regard. However, immediately after we warned that the law in its current form does not meet the expectations of our teachers and the demands we brought to the collective bargaining table, and that it lacks the content that deserves to be described as the 'occupational law',” the statement said.
“WE PRESENTED THE DRAFT LAW TO THE AUTHORITIES”
While pointing out that the issue concerns more than 1 million education workers, it was stated that the Occupational Law needs additional regulations and said, “We especially emphasized the need for a career system based on the length of service in teaching, which we expressed in the collective agreement, instead of a career ladder system based on exams. Finally, we have presented the law proposal we prepared as Eğitim-Bir-Sen Union to the attention of the Ministry of National Education (MEB), the Parliament, the Presidential Education and Training Policy Board and the public, in order to reorganize the Teaching Profession Law with a content that will meet the expectations of teachers.”
14 UNIONS WILL MAKE LEAVING LESSON ACTION TODAY
With the action to be taken by the 14 trainings union today, the Law on the Teaching Profession will be requested to be revised in consultation with the stakeholders. Anatolian Education Union (AES) Chairman Mehmet Alper Eğitici pointed out that the Teaching Profession Law is not a professional law, and said, “There can be no professional law from a text that separates the teachers' chamber and continues paid, contracted teaching. Within the framework of our decision to leave lesson action, our demands are very clear and unequivocal. The wages of all education workers should be raised above the poverty line, the Teaching Profession Law should be reconsidered with the stakeholders, and the Career Ladder Exam should be cancelled. In order to fulfill these demands, we will carry out the leave lesson action together with 14 unions today.”