Gabriel asks appreciation of educational workers and social professions

Gabriel calls for discussion on wage differentials.
A home game was not the appearance of SPD leader Gabriel at Germany's largest education union. The PRO requires a collective agreement for teachers and deeds rather than words. Also for the election applies: "The truth is on the court."


Dusseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel has called for an appreciation of social and educational nursing professions. Germany need not only a debate about the number of women on supervisory boards and executive suites, Gabriel said on Friday at the Federal Conventions of the Union for Education and Science (GEW) in Dusseldorf. There must also be given to the value on the lower floors of the professional pyramid.



"Why did you get that you actually move a ton of steel in Germany three times as much money as you would in person six kilos or 60 kilos nursery man in the elderly move?" Asked the head of the SPD. The division between technical and commercial professions that were considered important in the industrial society, and social professions must finally be overcome.

The PRO demanded by Gabriel - also with banners - to stand up for collective bargaining for the 200 000 teachers employed in Germany. In the SPD-led state governments that was not previously noted, criticized the new PRO-chairman Marlis Tepe. Instead, the SPD hide behind the collective community of the country. "Every country's government can still decide to pay fine with us."

There have also provided no state government that teachers in primary schools as much deserved as in other types of schools, presented Tepe fixed. Instead, they had to boot the highest teaching load.

Gabriel stressed condition for more investment in education are tax increases and thus a change of government in the federal election. He called on the union to the alliance with the SPD and the Greens. Tepe announced that the PRO will accompany the SPD more critical. The SPD must convince by deeds: "., The truth lies in the square"

The 59-year-old secondary school teacher from Schleswig-Holstein had prevailed on Thursday night in a crucial vote as the new leader of the largest with more than 266 000 members of the German trade union education.

CDU Vice Armin Laschet warned at the union conference before a grade competition among the states for teachers. Given the shortage of skilled workers in the coming years would be necessary general government agreements. "We need well-paid teachers," Laschet said. He criticized cuts and pay freezes for civil servants teachers at this year tariff adjustments, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia. The word was broken.

The five-day th Congress ends on Sunday....