GEW announces calls for higher wages and better training for educators GEW "finally pay teachers better,"
bargaining round 2008: profession more attractive - with 100,000 new workers to burst nativity program
Berlin - For a much better pay of the teachers, the Union for Education and Science (GEW) has been strong. In the upcoming contract talks would have to be grouped teachers higher than planned. "Hardly any other professional social expectations gape at the completed work and payment as far apart as in the nursery. The society should make demands on the work that teachers and educators, is grown enormously in recent years about the individual language training. The merit of the teachers has not kept pace with the increasing professional demands. On the contrary: The already low-paid occupational group with the changeover to the new system of collective bargaining suspended further been ", said for youth services and social work responsible GEW board member Norbert squat on Wednesday during a press conference in Berlin." The 'Nativity Project' of Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) bursts, if working conditions and pay of the teachers not so fast be improved as possible. There are no future well-trained workforce that can ensure high quality provision, "warned squat. He recalled that only for the planned expansion of nursery places around 100,000 new teachers were needed. With their training they had better yesterday than today started. "We need an attractive environment to enable more young people opt for the educator profession. This also includes an education at university level. Already, many cities have, especially in urban areas, problems in finding enough skilled workers. But the rent eat up much of the content, "said Crouch. "Kitas need to develop educational institutions, is where the "treasure of the early childhood lifted '. With a children's Verwahranstalten anyone is helped. All studies demonstrate the central importance of early childhood education for the further learning and life of girls and boys, "said the spokesman GEW. "It is time that educators are finally following the general salary increases. The increasing responsibility in the profession for good education must also be reflected in pay. Employers are well advised to go from wage brake lever, "GEW Rate expert said Ilse Schaad. It found that a teacher after training at the school a starting salary from 1764 € (gross) get a month. In the final stage, they usually get in Kita-service 2285 € (gross). Compared to the previously existing Federal Employees' Collective Agreement (BAT) that the mean on the collective agreement Public Service (TVöD) and the collective agreement of the Länder (TV-L) an income loss of more than 100 € a month. "The salary minus can be projected over the working life of more than 100,000 € be," said Schaad. "Obviously, employers believe that they could pay women less than men, which are predominantly staff in comparable occupations. This discrimination must end in the contract talks: Erziehrinnen have two income groups higher be sorted as yet. You could earn about 200 € more. "Teacher was still a" women's work ", almost 97 percent of workers in day care are women. Schaad pointed out that working in day care centers largely part-time employees. The rate was in the national average of almost two-thirds. "Of the few hundred euros received by a teacher in part-time, no one can live. Here, the part-time work is not freely chosen. According to a recent study would GEW nearly 40 percent of the teachers like to work full time but find no place ", said Schaad.
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