We invested about three billion euros in the last budget law for 2023, and therefore already in 2024 we have to sign a new contract that will bring an average increase of 160 euros for teachers. In two years it will be almost 300 euros.” . Here’s what was announced Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara“Giù la maschera” on Rai Radio 1. “We need to restore the reputation of teachers, and I have focused on that for more than a year and a half of my appointment, starting with salaries,” he explained. As soon as I came in, within three weeks we closed a contract that had been in place for years because the previous majority, but above all the previous government, had insisted that 300 million be allocated to marginal initiatives that were not particularly relevant to raising wages, and therefore Within three weeks, we signed a contract that brought the school’s highest staffing growth to date, 1.2 million employees.”
With the publication of the 2019-2021 collective agreement, the issue of raising the salaries of school collectives was in the center of attention yesterday. Minister of Internal Affairs’ question time in the chamber. “According to the Invalsi study, these increases,” Valditara said, “have led to an increase of some positions in the European ranking of the purchasing power of Italian teachers’ salaries.” The data is public and easily discussed. Therefore we immediately showed how our priority. Undoubtedly, to act on the increase of teachers’ salaries, fully aware that the respect and prestige that we want to guarantee them depends, first of all, on a fair economic recognition of their commitment.”
When questioned, the owner of Viale Trastevere then recalled that “The Collective agreement 2019/2021also increases fixed benefits for HTA staff and teachers; The DSGA management allowance comes to an annual value of approximately €2,760 with an increase of approximately €930. And we add to this that all auxiliary compensation for services, except for mandatory hours, has been increased by 10%, which must be paid from the Mof fund (improving the training offer, ed.) and compensation related to bilingualism and trilingualism benefits; increased and worked at night and/or on holidays. But we did not stop there. the last budget law essentially provided for 3 billion for a new school contract, and never in the history of Italian schools have provisions been made as soon as the contract is closed; the resources needed to sign a new contract already in the next year. And thanks to these new resources, the Minister of Education concluded, the average increase of teachers will be around 160 euros per month.”
