This Tuesday, the minister will meet unions in the education sector. “Every six weeks, I meet the unions, I see them tomorrow morning and it was decided even before the strike“, specifies Valérie Glatigny.
From there to imagining that all education stakeholders will agree on the reforms to be undertaken, there is a step that the minister does not take. “Obviously, if we consider that we must agree on savings with the unions, with the PO federations (editor’s note, organizing powers), It’s quite unrealistic to imagine that we will reach an agreement,” said the minister.It is unrealistic to imagine that there will be an agreement when there are obviously divergent interests on saving money.“, she adds. But, continues the minister, “we have no choice since the rating agency Moody’s has downgraded the prospects of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.”We cannot afford to have debt that spirals out of control, it would be a poisoned gift to our children“, concludes the minister who intends to follow through on the savings planned in compulsory education as they are by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation also in higher education, scientific research, the media and ministerial offices.
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