The Department of Education has presented a proposal for salary improvement based on bonuses to the unions, after failing to address the salary increase it had committed to on Thursday. The offer increases tutoring and digital coordination bonuses by 50% and center management bonuses by 25%.
The negotiation comes with a gap between what the union side demands and what the ministry proposes. While teachers' representatives demand an additional 478 euros per month for primary school teachers and 544 euros for secondary school teachers, Education is focusing its offer on payments linked to specific functions and new incentives for a portion of the staff.
Education limits salary improvement to bonuses and excludes linear increase
The proposal incorporates new bonuses for co-tutoring, Research Work management, and teachers in highly complex centers. In the latter case, the measure would affect 17,435 workers, with increases of 139.77 euros per month in primary and 196.56 euros in secondary education.
In addition, the ministry proposes a framework to recognize teaching careers with criteria linked to experience, continuous training, retention of teachers with more experience, and those unique functions that currently do not have a salary equivalent.
In parallel, Education wants to revive a promotion pathway that has been stalled since 2010. The proposal involves reactivating the corps of professors with 1,000 new positions between 2027 and 2030, at a rate of 250 per year.
Ustec maintains pressure with May 27 strike and requests 6,400 new hires
Faced with that offer, Ustec maintains its mobilization schedule for the general education strike on May 27. The union already blocked the Sagrada Familia for two hours on Monday and has warned that it may take protests to the Pope's visit to Barcelona.
The gap also appears in staffing planning. For the 2026-2027 academic year, the Department of Education plans to hire 2,301 new professionals, a figure far from the 6,400 that Ustec had requested.
Of that reinforcement announced by the ministry, more than 1,000 staff would go to inclusive education and another 864 would be allocated to strengthening staff for vocational training, reducing class sizes, opening new baccalaureate groups, and hiring Mathematics specialists.
The reactivation of the body of professors was set in the proposal with 250 positions annually from 2027 to 2030, after a halt that has been ongoing since 2010.