The unions have analyzed the new package of proposals sent by the Ministry of Education Following the latest meetings of the Sectoral Committee, as the regional government had previously announced, the documents have been sent divided into thematic blocks or "micro-agreements".
After studying the documentation, STEPV, CCOO and UGT have made public a joint assessment in which they acknowledge progress in some specific areas, especially in administrative bureaucracy, but consider several of the main points that originated the conflict and the call for an indefinite strike to still be insufficient.
Consult each document proposed by the Ministry in each link of the points analyzed by the unions.
The unions reject the pay agreement signed by CSIF and ANPE-CV
One of the areas where the unions are most forceful is the one related to the pay agreement signed last Monday The proposal was submitted solely by CSIF and ANPE-CV, along with the Regional Ministry of Education. The three organizations consider the salary proposal "clearly insufficient" because it does not allow for the recovery of the approximately 20% of purchasing power lost by Valencian teachers in recent years.
Furthermore, they are particularly critical of the fact that the salary review clause linked to the CPI is limited to 2028 and depends on both future negotiations and the budgetary resources available at that time. They also criticize the agreement for not including long-standing demands such as the full payment of bonuses, improvements for substitute teachers, and financial compensation for civil servants on sick leave after the 91st day.
The trade unions also reiterated their complaint that the negotiation took place "under conditions of bad faith," insisting that changes to the wording occurred when not all unions were present at the Sectoral Committee.
Bureaucracy: the point where unions and the Ministry come closest
The section related to the reduction of the bureaucratic burden It is, for now, the one that generates the most consensus between trade union organizations and the educational administration.
The unions welcome the Ministry's adoption of measures such as drafting an administrative simplification decree within six months, simplifying official assessment documents, and unifying computer applications into a single platform. They also consider the streamlined process for filling vacancies for administrative and educational support staff to be a positive step.
In this section, STEPV, CCOO and UGT acknowledge that there is a greater willingness to reach out on the part of the administration, although they warn that some measures still lack specificity, especially those related to the possible incorporation of administrative assistants in educational centers.
Ratios remain one of the major sticking points in the negotiations
Where the differences continue to be profound is in the reduction of ratios, one of the main reasons that prompted the indefinite strike.
The unions believe that the proposal put forward by the Regional Ministry "falls far short" of teachers' demands and also of the draft put forward by the Spanish Government itself. While they welcome the acceptance of working groups and future negotiations to continue making progress at all educational levels, they criticize the administration for still failing to specify what the maximum acceptable limits for the number of students per classroom would be.
They do acknowledge some partial progress, such as the possibility of compensating centers that cannot meet the established ratios with additional staff or the commitment to study specific regulations for Early Childhood Education and certain unique centers, but they believe that the core of the demand remains unresolved.
Teaching staff: partial progress, but without recovering previous cuts
Another area that continues to generate strong disagreement is the one related to the teaching staff and Training Professional.
Although the unions acknowledge progress such as the reduction of the maximum period for covering replacements, the maintenance of expert and specialist teachers or the increase in staff in infant schools for 0 to 3 years, they believe that the Ministry continues to not make clear commitments to recover the teaching staff lost during the last few years.
The criticism focuses particularly on blended learning vocational training and the Official Schools of LanguagesAdult Education, conservatories or ISEA centers.
Infrastructure: regular meetings, but an "insufficient" budget
En educational infrastructureSTEPV, CCOO, and UGT do acknowledge some important steps taken by the administration. They welcome the agreement to convene specific meetings and quarterly follow-up meetings to monitor the actual state of educational investments.
They also highlight as a new development that the future Infrastructure Master Plan will finally include the ISEA centers, one of the demands put forward by the unions during the negotiations.
However, they consider the announced budget still insufficient and particularly criticize the lack of specifics regarding the funds allocated to schools affected by the DANA storm, one of the most sensitive issues in the current education conflict. Furthermore, they expressly point out that this crucial point is relegated to the very end of the document.
Educational inclusion: new measures, but without full agreement
En educational inclusionThe unions acknowledge that the new proposal incorporates some improvements compared to the initial documents sent by the Department of Education. These include an additional increase in Social Education professionals for the 2026/2027 academic year, the creation of new Territorial Coordination of Guidance positions, and a review of the current regulatory framework for inclusion to adapt it to the real needs of the education system.
They also positively value the improved wording of regulations related to guidance counselors in primary schools.
Even so, they consider it insufficient that the creation of a specific commission to define the criteria for staffing specialized personnel has not been accepted, one of the main union demands in this area.
Vocational training: unions denounce that the eliminated courses will not be reinstated
Another of the most sensitive areas continues to be the one related to the Vocational trainingTrade unions criticize the Ministry for not guaranteeing the maintenance of the training cycles that were cut for the 2026/2027 academic year.
They explain that maintaining the overall number of programs does not necessarily mean that those eliminated in certain areas or specializations will be reinstated. They do, however, welcome the creation of a specific working group to improve in-company training during the 2026/2027 academic year, a long-standing demand of the sector.
The unions describe the proposal on Valencian as a "mockery".
One of the harshest pronouncements in the union assessment concerns the section related to the Valencian and the linguistic modelSTEPV, CCOO, and UGT consider the proposal put forward by the Regional Ministry to be "a mockery" and denounce the "administration's lack of interest in the Valencian language." The organizations anticipate a strong rejection of the approach put forward by the regional government.
The conditions for temporary teachers remain outside the negotiation.
The unions also denounce that several historical demands remain completely outside the proposals submitted by the Ministry.
Among them are improvements in working conditions for temporary teachers and the pending development of the Adult Education Law, issues that were part of the initial demands of the strike and which, according to the trade union organizations, continue to be unaddressed in a real way in the negotiation.
The unions are now preparing a general consultation with the teaching staff
After analyzing all the documents sent by the Regional Ministry of Education, the STEPV, CCOO, and UGT unions are now working on a consultation aimed at all Valencian teachers. They explain that the goal is to disseminate all the information received and allow teachers to comprehensively assess the various proposals before deciding on the next steps in the education conflict.
Meanwhile, the indefinite strike remains officially called and negotiations are still open pending further meetings of the Sectoral Committee.
