Teachers' unions have opposed a call for teacher examinations in 2013 in the Canary Islands, as it will be detrimental to temporary and substitute teachers. This statement is signed by the unions CCOO, CSIF, Docentes Canarias-INSUCAN, EA-CANARIAS, FETE-UGT, SEPCA, STEC-IC and UCPL.
For the unions, the call for examinations at "this point" has generated "stupefaction" in the teaching sector of the Canary Islands. "It entails that a very high volume of temporary and substitute teachers will become unemployed," they have pointed out. The majority of those affected, more than 80 percent, would be "women with a high average age, around 55 years old, single and with children, with extensive experience, more than 15 years, unfairly penalized by gender."
The unions have pointed out, in this sense, that "the system is unequal, favoring those who access from outside the system compared to those who try from their current job." "And especially when they are deceived regarding the call and it is delayed until these dates. This Administration shows a total disregard for the experience, the professionalism shown over so many years, of the temporary and substitute teachers," they have denounced.
The unions have also insisted that less than a month ago they asked if teacher examinations would be called in 2013, and they were told "on several occasions that no." However, they have recalled that in recent weeks the Minister of Education, José Miguel Pérez, "surprisingly has been publicly defending the opposite, the possibility of calling examinations, increasing the offer as much as possible."
The "total indifference" of the administration
In this sense, they have also pointed out that the Administration shows "its total indifference to the different requests made to study and negotiate the possible modifications of both the decree and the order that regulate the employment lists, with the double objective of guaranteeing the stability of the temporary and substitute teachers of the Canary Islands, while keeping the employment lists of all specialties alive." In this way, the problem "that has already been detected in the lists of Secondary and Vocational Training, after the application of the current regulations in the 2010 examinations" would be avoided.
In addition, the unions believe that "so much effort" could not be justified for a "derisory" call for places, which would be around 60 or 70. And it is that, according to their calculations, it could cost "between one and two million euros to public coffers."
"This is not the way, enough of the bossiness. We must work with seriousness and responsibility. We demand that the decree and/or the order that regulate the employment lists be modified prior to any call for examinations in the Canary Islands. Likewise, the employment lists of all specialties and in all teaching bodies must be opened, as well as generating the necessary increase in the staff in proportions similar to other autonomous communities," the unions have requested.
At the same time, they have asked for a change that leads to "real negotiation, committed dialogue and transparency in the management of the educational administration."
