Education: Syndicates' Bloc freezes the three-day strike

Secretary General of the Independent Syndicate of Education and Training Workers, Boualem Amoura, explained after the meeting, which gathered him with representatives of the National Education Ministry, in the context of the resumption of “negotiation” bilateral sessions, told Echorouk, that the ministry and through its representatives, which are the Inspector General, Messaguem, users director Abdelhakim Belabed, minister’s counselor in charge of relations with the syndicates, Chaib Deraa, has responded positively to the demands that were raised, so that it responded to 11 out of 12 demands.

“Previous decisions that were issued in the form of “a media statements” have been totally postponed, as the ministry decides again to re-open the law on the sector’s users 12/240 that amended and completed the law 315/08, without condition or restriction, and therefore the ministry waived the Charter of Ethics and abolished it completely, a charter that caused a real crisis within the sector and increased tensions between the ministry and the social partners, because it states in one of its provisions to prevent syndicates from engaging in strikes in the future, in contrast it sent an invitation to all the syndicates to sit down with them on one table and start formulating a “new charter of ethics. At a time when the Secretary General of the Syndicate thinks that the agreement that was stated by the ministry in previous meetings is imaginary and does not exist in the field.”

First responsible of the SATEF asserted that during the same meeting which lasted one hour, representatives of the ministry has approved the payment of financial compensation to employees who have completed the training, and were reintegrated into the rank of major professor and trainer and with retroactive effect from January 2012 in 39 Wilayas, on the grounds that 11 provinces, received financial compensation and retroactively on time and without any delay.