Trade union CCOO has called out a national walkout because nursery school teachers are not being paid an adequate salary for their levels of responsibility and training and to protest lack of job security. Salaries in the sector have been frozen for the last seven-and-a-half years. According to union CCO current salaries of fulltime working nursing school teachers do not reach 900 euro a month gross.
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