The educational conflict is spreading across different parts of Spain in the middle of May. While the Valencian Community maintains a public education teacher strike and Catalonia continues with educational sector mobilizations, Aragon is preparing for new strikes called for the coming days in a climate of growing tension between unions and administrations.
Although each territory presents different demands and contexts, the discontent shares several common elements: working conditions, staffing, workload, salaries, and the organization of the educational system.
Madrid also joins this map of conflict, where the focus is not on a general teachers' strike, but on the ongoing mobilizations in the first cycle of early childhood education.
Valencian Community: indefinite strike and negotiation without agreement
The Valencian Community maintains one of the most intense educational conflicts of the moment. The indefinite strike of public education teachers continues after the negotiation between the Ministry of Education and the unions has failed to reach an agreement.
One of the main points of friction is the salary issue, although union demands go further and include reducing ratios, strengthening staff, less bureaucratic burden, and improvements in resources for educational support.
The Generalitat has presented proposals within the framework of the negotiation, but union organizations consider the proposed measures insufficient and are maintaining pressure.
The conflict keeps a focus of uncertainty open within the Valencian educational calendar.
Catalonia: new protests in the educational sector
In Catalonia, protests have been particularly felt in the field of early childhood education, with calls promoted by platforms and organizations in the sector denouncing insufficient working conditions and lack of resources.
Among the demands are claims regarding ratios, staff reinforcement, salary improvements, and changes in the organization of schools.
The conflict is part of a broader discontent within the Catalan educational system, where various groups have held mobilizations in recent weeks.
Aragon: strike called on the horizon
Aragon is preparing to join this scenario of conflict with a teachers' strike already called for the coming days.
The education unions have announced strikes in protest of various decisions affecting the regional education system and the deterioration they denounce in the conditions of the teaching staff.
Although the strike has not yet begun, the conflict is already part of the national education map due to the formal call and the open clash between teaching representatives and the regional administration. The immediate calendar makes Aragon the next major focus of the education conflict.
Madrid: the open conflict in early childhood education
In Madrid there is no teachers' strike, but there is tension within the education sector. The focus is on early childhood education, especially in the 0 to 3 years cycle, where mobilizations promoted by unions and worker platforms continue.
The organizations demand salary improvements, reduction of ratios, more staff, and reinforcement of resources to adequately care for minors. They also denounce that part of the sector's staff receives salaries close to the minimum wage despite performing educational functions.