According to a letter from the teachers’ union to Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer, school principals, teachers and administrative staff “took a lot out of themselves to get our children and young people and their parents through this difficult and challenging time in the best possible way” and to maintain face-to-face teaching. ÖVP). In doing so, they would have exposed themselves to an increased health risk and taken on “countless additional educational and health policy tasks”, the open letter argues. Nehammer had announced the intention that the money earmarked for the vaccination fleet should go to those people who would have done a lot in the pandemic and named the health and nursing staff, army soldiers and the police.
GPA: “Invest funds sustainably in care”
It is “incomprehensible” if only these groups of people are taken into account, say the teachers’ representatives. “We therefore call on the federal government to also take into account those people in our schools who did just as much during the pandemic when apportioning the ‘vaccination fleet’.”
GPA Chairwoman Barbara Teiber has other ideas. In your opinion, the funds that have been released should be invested in long-term care, according to a broadcast. “To distribute the vaccination fleet billion now with the watering can would be a slap in the face of the nursing staff.” Instead, their salaries would have to be sustainably increased and working hours reduced, and trainees would also have to be paid.
FPÖ General Secretary Michael Schnedlitz, on the other hand, believes that the funds for the vaccination fleet are not available and are only “based on pure marketing by the black-green ‘circus directors'”. At the same time, he demands a “tangible inflation adjustment”: “Price brakes and tax reductions on fuel and energy for private households are a start and the order of the day,” said Schnedlitz in a broadcast.
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