The Union FIRE has denounced this Monday that the lack of a regional complement, which in other regions such as the PaÃs Vasco reaches a thousand euros, and the specific, “lower than the country’s average”, places Asturian teachers as the worst paid in Spain, with differences of up to 300 euros with the teachers of Cantabria.
A secondary school teacher starts working earning almost 200 euros less per month than the average in the country and “very far from what teachers from other autonomous regions comparable to Asturies earn, as is the case of Cantabria, where he starts with a salary of 300 euros.” a month apart,” he pointed out.
For his part, a teacher recently entered the profession earns 154 euros less per month than the national average and 271 euros less per month than teachers in Cantabria.
At a press conference, the SUATEA spokesperson, Fran Reyhas specified that this situation is produced by the “harmful” decisions of a Government that does not want to approve any type of autonomous supplement and by not wanting to raise the specific: “we are the lowest paid teachers in the country”
Rey has recognized that teachers from the Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, in principle have lower salaries than those paid in Asturias but, as he has highlighted, “they enjoy an additional supplement due to their geographical peculiarities with which they exceed the fees of the teaching staff of the Principality”.
To try to alleviate this salary discrimination, Rey has pointed out, the Principality, with the collaboration of ANPE and UGT, designed a remuneration supplement through an evaluation plan, called “professional career” to increase the salary of employees. teachers from a certain seniority (a minimum of 5 years), “but it is not ex officio, but rather you have to be evaluated on a series of items by the management team,” he warned.
In his opinion, this solution means that teachers have to be “submissive” to be able to receive this supplement, as it depends on the evaluation of the director of each center, and its payment “does not allow them to suffer from a long-term illness that requires having a sick leave that is too long.”
Furthermore, he stressed, with this supplement it takes a teacher up to fourteen years to bring his salary up to the average in the country, while in the case of Secondary Schools he has to wait seventeen years.
“Teaching evaluation resembles a system of rewards and punishments aimed at keeping us docile and submissive, to suffer for a few years but be happy because we are waiting for the reward,” he lamented.
A loss of purchasing power of 7.5%
On the other hand, also a member of the Secretariat of SUATEA Visitación López has assured that the 0.5 percent increase agreed between the Principality, with CCOO and UGT, for the period 2022 to 2024 “in the smallest of cases represents a loss of teachers’ salaries of 7.5 percent.” cent taking into account the variation in the CPI.”
Finally, Rey has criticized that this agreement between the Government and the unions was “so ridiculous that its increase does not even cover the percentage of the CPI, which means that the wage gap is increasing.”