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Teachers will ask the European Commission to intervene with the Government

The platform of nine education professional unions will on Wednesday take the teachers' problems to the European Commission representation in Lisbon, asking it to intervene with the Portuguese government



According to information from the National Federation of Education (FNE), the nine trade union organizations will be received by the coordinator and deputy coordinator of the European Commission's representation in Lisbon, to whom they will make known "persistent inequalities".

"In particular in relation to teachers with fixed-term contracts, but also among teachers on the permanent staff, with overtaking in the career and in the competitions for placement of teachers," says the FNE.

They will also address other issues such as the "restrictions on the exercise of union activity, with some schools imposing minimum services when union meetings are held, and the right to strike.

The unions believe that there is "room for diligence that the European bodies can develop", despite considering that "the problems that affect teachers have to be solved by national authorities, namely the Government and Parliament".

"In relation to the European Parliament, contacts will be made through the political parties that elected members of the European Parliament, and meetings have already been requested to all of them; this meeting is already intended to send to the European Commission several information, requesting an intervention with the Portuguese government," says the FNE.

For the unions, a possible recourse to European legal instances will only be possible after exhausting the national instances, "with which they are developing the necessary actions, through which they seek to solve the problems of career overruns, as well as contest the illegal minimum services that were imposed on teachers on strike days.

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