Protests against the draft law
reforming Italy's school system are gathering pace both inside
the world of politics and on the streets.
MPs from the opposition Ecological Left Party (SEL), the
Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League Friday
expressed their concern over the bill to lower house speaker
Laura Boldrini, with the SEL claiming the legislation
"humiliates parliament" because it is being pushed through by
the government and the League and M5S objecting to the bill
being tied to the Budget law.
On Saturday school teachers and students unions, the
CGIL, CISL, UIL, Snals and Gilda, will stage a demonstration in
Rome in the Piazza Santi Apostoli to reject the bill as it
stands and demand deep changes in the legislation, union sources
said.
Organisers of the protest said it will represent "the real
school system, the every day reality that lives directly through
difficulties, discomfort and problems, putting into the field
its resources, skills and passion to overcome them".
Leaders of the national trade union federations are
expected to deliver speeches at the rally "to reiterate
forcefully the requests over which the school world has
mobilised for weeks - no to models of authoritarian management
that overturn principles of autonomy founded on collegiality, an
immediate plan for hiring that ensures the stability of work for
all the teaching staff and assistants employed precariously for
years; staff adequate for needs; renewal of the contract that
expired seven years ago; no to legal incursions on matters
subject to contracts; the start of a strategy of strong
investment in teaching and training," the protest organisers
said.
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