The Maturity exam is underway and this year too tens of thousands of temporary workers have guaranteed the functioning of the schools but continue to not be stabilized. The reason? We asked Giuseppe D’Aprile, national secretary of the Uil school. «In the last 10 years – he replied – the number of temporary teachers has tripled and today around 250 thousand workers guarantee the functioning of Italian schools every year through fixed-term contracts, with mass dismissals in June and new hirings in September. Even in these days there are thousands of temporary teachers committed to ensuring the smooth running of the State Exams, taking on the same responsibilities as their permanent colleagues on the exam commissions. Paradoxically, many of them will be fired at the end of the exams without any certainty of being hired again on September 1st. Added to this is another injustice: the salaries foreseen for presidents and commissioners of the final exams have essentially stopped in 2007 and have never been adjusted to the increase in the cost of living and the greater responsibilities required. It is a situation that penalizes workers, students and families, because without stability there can be no true educational continuity. For this reason, the Uil Scuola is asking for an extraordinary hiring plan for all vacant positions, the transformation of the de facto workforce into a de jure workforce and the use of GPS, together with competitions, as a structural recruitment channel. The solution exists: we need the political will to overcome a precarious situation that has no equal in the rest of the public sector.”
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