Compromís recognises education community mobilisation during recent Valencian strike
The Valencian party highlighted the role of teachers, families and students in the strike called by unions STEPV and CCOO, and organised a meeting with one of its own MPs to discuss the state of education.
The Valencian party Compromís has publicly recognised the role of the education community — teachers, families and students — during the recent strike called across the Valencian Community by the unions STEPV and CCOO (Comisiones Obreras, one of Spain's largest union federations). As part of this recognition, the party organised a meeting with one of its own members of the Valencian regional parliament (Les Corts Valencianes) to hear teachers' demands directly and open a dialogue on the state of education in the region, which also includes schools in the Camp de Morvedre district. Compromís is a coalition founded in 2010 that brings together Més-Compromís, Iniciativa del Poble Valencià, Verds Equo del País Valencià and Coalició Compromís; after peaking at 19 seats in 2015, it now holds 15 of the 99 seats in Les Corts Valencianes. CCOO, one of the unions behind the strike alongside STEPV, was founded in 1962 and has more than one million members in Spain, organising teachers through its Federación de Enseñanza (Education Federation). According to elperiodic.com.