The university has sent an email asking for teaching staff availability to perform classroom supervision duties if necessary. This measure responds to concerns about potential absences among secondary school teachers, who are assigned to supervise the exams and might join the protests.
The PAU are scheduled from June 9 to 11, with 47 tribunals spread across the Bellaterra and Sabadell campuses. These tribunals consist of 379 people, 191 of whom are secondary school teachers, a group that could join the strike.
Sources from the UAB have justified this initiative as a "measure of responsibility" to ensure the normal development of the exams for students, reminding that participation in the tribunals is remunerated.
“"University professors who are asked to supervise and grade the PAU to replace striking teachers, if you do so you will be as 🐿️ as the teachers who are not striking. Defending public institutions is everyone's responsibility and sabotaging strikes is a betrayal of the working class and the country!"
The university's decision has drawn criticism from the University Assembly Collectives (CAU-IAC) and the USTEC·STEs union. They consider that seeking alternative staff violates teachers' right to strike and demand the immediate withdrawal of the instructions. The unions denounce that the rectorate has promoted a list of substitutes for the UAB's administrative and technical staff (PTGAS) to cover supervision, which they interpret as an attempt at strikebreaking.
This controversy arises after the majority of consulted teachers rejected the agreement negotiated between worker representatives and the Department of Education, keeping the strike call alive for the exam days.
