Jerusalem Post: Analysis: Just the beginning…
Despite the enthusiastic back-slapping coming out of the Secondary School Teachers Organization (SSTO), the Education Ministry and the Treasury, the “historic” deal signed Thursday amounted to a very small gain for the nation’s secondary school teachers.
In May, the elementary school teachers’ National Teachers Union (NTU), representing two-thirds of Israel’s teachers, signed an agreement with the Finance Ministry that instituted a new wage arrangement in which salaries would start at more than NIS 5,000 per month and rise 30% faster than previously, in exchange for an almost one-third increase in work hours. The reform also gave more authority over personnel decisions to principals.
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