The teachers’ strike meant that some cities saved millions in payroll costs. Not that money goes back to school.
More than one-eighth of the 8,200 striking teachers are working in Bergen, which has saved almost NOK 29 million so far, writes Klassekampen. After the latest strike action, Bergen was saving 3.5 million per day, the school board said. It is not clear how the money saved will be used.
– They go into the city coffers, and then there has to be a process, says the city’s director of kindergartens, schools and sports, Marius Arnason Bøe. Based on previous experience, he said that the money was not necessarily spent on children and youth.
– Not that it doesn’t happen, but there is no automation in it, says Bøe.
Local team leader Bente Myrtveit at the Education Association believes the money should go to good causes when the strike is over.
– Additional staff, for example.
In Haugesund, mayor Arne-Christian Mohn (Ap) says they don’t think enough in silos. and that schools receive the money they need at any time, within reasonable limits. He also said that the municipality had used extra resources to offer activities such as leisure clubs, ice rinks and cinemas during the strike.
In Lillestrøm and Tromsø too, the political leadership says they are going back to how the money they have saved should be used.
(© NTB)
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