UOB challenges the Education Ministry over the early dates of the competitive examinations and calls for "insubordination" by the tribunals

PalmThe UOB union has called for "non-compliance" by the examination boards for teacher recruitment exams in response to the Ministry of Education's intention to move the exams forward to May, an initiative the union describes as "absurd." In a statement, the union explained that this proposed "sabotage" arose after the organization's assembly voted overwhelmingly—with nearly 70% of the votes—to oppose the Ministry's proposed change to the exam schedule.

The union argues that teachers are "tired of improvisation" and hastily implemented decisions, and criticizes the educational administration's approach. "That the well-being of teachers is not a priority for the Ministry of Education and Universities was already known; that, to facilitate its own work, the Ministry is willing to disrupt the planning of hundreds of applicants, in addition to bogging down schools during the month of May, could be considered a novelty," the union maintains. In this regard, UOB accuses the Ministry of accumulating a "history of errors, improvisation, and chaos" that it considers "alarming." Among the dysfunctions it denounces, it points to summer procedures that "end well into the night," deadlines that "are not met," priority systems that "violate the principles of merit, equality, and ability," infrastructure that "is falling apart," and "indiscriminate attacks on the Catalan language."

To all this, the union now adds the advancement of the competitive examinations, which it denounces as a process "done in haste" and "without the consensus of the educational community." For these reasons, UOB Ensenyament urges the Ministry of Education and Universities "not to advance the schedule" of the selection processes during this academic year and demands "proper planning, through negotiation with the educational community, of any substantial changes."