[etni] Fw: Re: new contract for oral testing and bagrut examiners

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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:53:13 +0200
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From: tessa shrem - tessashrem@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: new contract for oral testing and bagrut examiners

I almost signed the ktav minui, but after reading Sharon's posting, I read 
it and was absolutely shocked at the belligerence and threatening tone used.

 I wonder how many teachers actually DO read the contract we sign every 
year.  Most of us simply shrug our shoulders and moan and groan to each 
other about how the Ministry exploits the teachers who have to do the 
testing on their day off with very little remuneration.  And sometimes with 
no remuneration at all - a few years ago, they changed the form and whoever 
had filled in the wrong form didn't get paid.

Last year, it appeared that many teachers  sent their ktav minui to the 
wrong address, to the testing department in Jerusalem instead of to Kiryat 
Ono. Naturally those teachers didn't get paid.  But hey presto - maybe the 
Ministry realized that some teachers would refuse to test - last week I 
received a notification of payment from the Ministry for the testing I did a 
year ago.  It seems that  there is a line of communication between Jerusalem 
and Kiryat Ono after all.  But where was the interest on my money that they 
had been holding for an entire year? ( A trifling amount to be sure, but 
we're talking about principles here)

The conditions and the indignities under which we work have become 
absolutely intolerable.  But as long as we accept them and don't even 
implement sanctions that the Irgun Hamorim imposes while it tries to improve 
our lot, we can only expect the situation to get worse.

Tessa Shrem


Sharon wrote:
>I was just about to sign the contract we are sent every year as oral
examiners and bagrut examiners - and then I read it.
You might not be aware of it, but there is a legal battle going on at
present between the irgun and the Education Ministry concerning our work as
bagrut examiners. At present, we are "independent" and have no rights of
pension etc. The Irgun has been trying to see that we get certain basic
rights as workers. It is now a case in the courts.

In our new contract, it says that we agree that in the event that the
court - or any other body, decides that we are indeed workers with rights,
we agree to get only 34% of our pay and we will return 34% of the pay we
received "from the beginning our connection with the Ministry of Education
according to this contract!" (whatever that means).  I don't see why we
should agree to sign a document that undercuts the irgun position in court.

I've sent a copy to the irgun, and I suggest we don't sign until we get
instructions.



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