The unions of the public education system accept the agreement to recover the frozen 2.9% of salaries

The salary conflict of the teachers of the concerted education faces its resolution. This Friday, the secretary general of FSIE Baleares, Antoni Sacarés, has ratified the agreement to recover the 2.9% salary increase that was frozen in 2020 and 2021. The decision comes after the union conducted an express consultation among its members, who overwhelmingly supported the signing of the pact.

The STEI, together with the rest of the union organizations, has also joined the agreement in principle after this morning’s meeting. The Govern will pay the approximately 15 million euros in two phases: a first payment of 50% in April 2026 and the remaining in March 2027, always subject to budget availability. Education recalls that salaries were already updated in January of this year, so this pact does not mean a new increase, but the return of what was frozen.

Despite accepting the agreement, FSIE and STEI have shown their discomfort with the treatment received. Both unions denounce that the teachers of the concerted are being considered as “second-rate teachers”, since their counterparts in the public will receive all the arrears in 2026, a more favorable calendar. For this reason, they have asked the Govern that, if finally the payments to the civil servants are advanced, the same should be applied automatically to the public-sector.

During the negotiation, FSIE has also demanded that the salary tables be updated at the same time as in the public sector, including the retroactive payment of the 2.5% agreed for 2025 by the central government. The secretary general of the Conselleria, Bartomeu Riera, has committed to apply the increases of 2025 (2.5%) and 2026 (1.5%) to the teachers of the concerted simultaneously with the civil servants.

Finally, the Conselleria has convened for December 4 the Monitoring Committee of the Framework Agreement of the Concertada 2023-2027, where the pending commitments will be reviewed. The unions welcome this progress, but insist: the pact arrives with “reluctance” and does not solve the existing inequality between public and subsidized education.