Teachers and school workers will be on strike on Friday, a strike called by the Union of All Education Professionals (Stop) to mark International Women's Day.
In addition to the national strike, Stop will participate in the march organized by Plataforma Feminista and Rede 8 de Março, scheduled for 18pm, which starts from Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques to Rossio, in Lisbon.
In a post on the social network Facebook, the union highlights that the majority of education professionals are women and that they continue to face “numerous discrimination”.
In greater detail, the strike notice, which covers teaching and non-teaching staff, states that women are harmed, for example, in their career progression due to being on sick leave due to a high-risk pregnancy or taking parental leave.
Stop also points out that, in relation to exemption for breastfeeding, it is often the schools that decide which hours or classes to remove from the exemption schedule, contrary to what is foreseen.
In addition to issues specifically related to women, professionals will take advantage of the strike to reaffirm the demands that have marked the protest in schools, such as the valorization and dignification of teaching and operational education assistant careers, the recovery of frozen service time and the review of the teaching staff recruitment and management regime.
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