UOB accuses Vera of "disdaining" the Education Sectoral Board: "He expresses it publicly."

PalmThe UOB union has accused the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, of "disdaining" the Education Sectoral Board. "This is a fact that UOB has repeatedly denounced over the last few academic years. After displaying a despotic attitude and attempting to transform the Board into a purely informational body, the only thing missing was for Mr. Antoni Vera to publicly express his contempt for the Sectoral Board," it says.

UOB refers to the explanation that Vera gave to the ARA Baleares Regarding the difficulties the Regional Ministry is having in defining the functioning of the teaching recruitment processes. "We have state and regional civil service laws, regional civil service decrees—which apply to non-teaching staff—but we don't have specific regulations for teachers, and that requires us to negotiate everything at the Sectoral Roundtable," he said. "What's unacceptable is that the rules of the game change every year. We're going to work to approve specific regulations for teaching staff for the next academic year," he added, regarding the temporary staff recruitment processes, which have once again been controversial this year.

The union believes the Roundtable is an "obstacle" to the aspirations that "the Minister has demonstrated." "Dissolving public schools, harming Catalan, and systematically violating the Framework Agreement. Or is it now that the entire mess with the awarding of positions is the fault of the workers' representatives?" they ask. During the conversation with ARA Baleares, Vera explained that the changes to the awarding of temporary positions and the order of position selection had been requested by the unions. The modification has allowed temporary workers with few points, but who had been dismissed from a three-year vacancy, to be preempted by others who perhaps had hundreds, but who had not been dismissed. "UOB has never requested the priority system, which has raised so many complaints in recent weeks; on the contrary, it was flatly opposed," they argue. However, it should be noted that there are four other unions at the Roundtable with the right to propose and vote.