The trade unions are calling for an Education Inspectorate with consistent criteria and greater safeguards for teachers, as well as an end to the "bureaucratic practices and constant demands based on punitive and disciplinary logic" that they say lie behind the dispute.
Among the main demands of the six trade unions are the removal of the so-called "minimum essential requirements" and the unification of the Education Inspectorate's operating criteria across the three provinces of Aragon. They are also calling for an external review, with safeguards, of the sanctions imposed on teachers and for the replacement of the current head of the Huesca Inspectorate.
The unions believe the situation goes beyond individual cases and directly affects teachers' working conditions. In this regard, they warn that it is a dispute affecting the professional safeguards, legal certainty and working conditions of all teachers.
With this new day of strike action, the organizations behind the call are seeking "effective responses from the education authorities" and to unblock a dispute that has lasted for more than two years. The unions insist on the need for an "effective change in the way the Huesca Education Inspectorate operates" and support an inspection model that is "useful, fair and at the service of the education community".
The protests will continue this afternoon with a demonstration at 6:00 p.m. that has set off from Santo Domingo Square in Huesca. Both actions seek responses from the education authorities to a dispute that, according to the unions, has gone more than two years without satisfactory solutions.
