By education stage, the strike had the greatest impact among teachers in Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), where 29.75% of educators joined the walkout. In Primary Education, the figure stood at 17.6%. Data for the afternoon shift will be released on Thursday, once the Education Department has collected information from the schools.
The day of action also includes various demonstrations in the streets of Huesca city. Teachers were called to gather at noon in Cervantes Square, while a march is scheduled for this afternoon, starting at 6 p.m. from Santo Domingo Square. The action is jointly supported by CSIF, CGT, HUSTE-STEA, CCOO, UGT and ANPE.
TSJA UPHOLDS MINIMUM SERVICE REQUIREMENTS
The strike was also marked by a decision adopted at midday by the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Aragon (TSJA), which rejected CGT’s request for interim emergency measures against the 25% minimum services set for the day.
The unions behind the strike have been denouncing “very deep discontent” in the province’s schools for more than two years and are calling for an Educational Inspection system with consistent criteria and greater safeguards for teachers. Their main demands include eliminating the so-called “essential minimums,” unifying the Inspection’s operating criteria across Aragon’s three provinces and carrying out an external review, with guarantees, of the sanctions imposed on teachers.
The unions are also calling for the replacement of the current head of the Huesca Inspection Service and criticizing what they describe as “bureaucratic practices and permanent demands” based on punitive and disciplinary approaches. They say the conflict is no longer limited to individual cases, but affects working conditions, legal certainty and the professional safeguards of the teaching staff as a whole.
