A group of 15 delegates from the CIG-Ensino and the STEG locked themselves up this Thursday in the offices of the Ministry of Education in Santiago de Compostela to demand a meeting with the Minister of Education, Science, Universities and FP, Román Rodríguez, at the gates of the strike days called for next week.
“After speaking with the counselor’s staff We will stay here until we have a meeting date and we maintain the strikes next week which will coincide with the approval of the Xunta budgets for 2026″, declared the national secretary of the CIG-Ensino, Laura Arroxo.
For his part, questioned by Europa Press about this confinement during an event in Santiago, The advisor assured that he was not aware of this action and stressed that “if there is a confinement, there are procedures and, if they are there, he hopes that everything goes well”.
“Making a labor conflict visible”
A protest action that Arroxo framed within the strategy of “make the labor conflict visible that the Galician teachers maintain with the Ministry” and after knowing that “the advance of the reduction of ratios and the reduction of hours in secondary education is being negotiated”.
“After learning that within the framework of the agreement monitoring committee, progress is being negotiated in terms of time adjustment and reduction of ratios in Secondary, the Department we cannot leave the majority union on the sidelines nor to organizations that call for mobilizations supported largely by teachers,” Arroxo said.
It should be remembered that the CSIF Ensino signed its accession to the agreement this Tuesday on measures to improve the education system signed in 2023 with CC.OO., ANPE and UGT, a decision which was adopted “as an exercise in responsibility”, as the union itself emphasizes.
In this context, the CIG denounced in a press release that “these movements would not take place if there were no mobilizations”Concretely, the union center and the STEG called for two days of strike on December 16 and 17 and for a demonstration in Compostela on the 17th.
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