More than 1,500 people in Seville demand job improvements for university staff

CSIF, CCOO and UGT Andalucía have gathered this Thursday in Seville around 1,500 people -according to conveners- to demand a model that allows the financial sufficiency of Andalusian public universities and to demand that the labor improvements agreed for the Teaching and Research Staff be fulfilled (PDI) and for the Administration and Services Staff (PAS) and for “sufficient” funding to maintain the quality of the public university system.

The demonstration took place between the Rectorate of the University of Seville and the Palacio de San Telmo, seat of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía. It should be remembered that the mobilization coincided with the last day of the Baccalaureate Assessment Test for University Access (PEvAU).

The person in charge of Universities and vice president of the Education Sector of CSIF Andalusia, Rafael Delgado Calvo-Flores, who has participated in this mobilization, has demanded that “job insecurity in university teachers be ended and that urgent measures be taken against aging that affects the templates”.

The convening union organizations seek to cover one hundred percent of chapter 1 of the personnel budgets and that the agreements reached in 2018 on the regional complement of the PDI and the development of the horizontal career of the PAS are complied with, as well as the payment of arrears corresponding to these five years.

CSIF Educación Andalucía requires the regional administration to “resume negotiations after five months of delay after the call last January for the Andalusian negotiation tables at the university level”. One of the main demands is a new call for regional supplements for the PDI, which “in addition to having not been called for almost five years, affect the most precarious salaries of the templates, corresponding to the personnel of the lowest categories”.

Likewise, CSIF demands the design of a career for the administration and services staff and the full payment of the fifth tranche, an economic claim of the referred staff similar to that of the teaching staff complements.. The adaptation of the Andalusian system of universities to the new national law (LOSU), which requires urgent measures negotiated with the universities and the unions, is another of the demands.

Likewise, with this demonstration the Andalusian Government has been demanded to sit down to negotiate to reach 1% of the Andalusian GDP in the contribution of the Autonomous Community to the Andalusian Public University System to guarantee its quality.

For her part, the general secretary of the CCOO Andalucía Teaching Federation, Marina Venga, described the mobilization as a “success”, remarking that “while the Andalusian government suffocates public universities, it empowers and authorizes private ones, clearly leaving the given their intentions and privatization policies”.