By FLC CGIL Puglia
The discussion took place yesterday at the Regional School Office for Puglia on theworkforce of ATA staff for the next school year 2024/25. Beyond 14 thousand places in total (14,043) of school collaborators, administrative assistants and technical assistants for all the Apulian provinces. In essence, this is the confirmation of the staff activated last school year, despite the reduction of several thousand student enrollments compared to 2023/24 in our region.
The novelty consists above all in the inclusion in the distribution tables of the Provincial Educational Office of the BAT which, for the first time, will be the recipient of a specific contingent of ATA staff.
Bari remains the Territorial Area with the highest workforce (4,094), followed by Lecce (2,660), Foggia (2,376), Taranto (2,129), BAT (1,448), Brindisi (1,336). Most of the 14 thousand ATA places in the region are made up of school collaborators (9,118), while there are 3,425 administrative assistants and 1,420 gli technical assistants (as well as a few dozen places for less common profiles). Among the latter, only 73 technical assistant positions are assigned to first cycle schools, for which we claim greater generalisation. The staff of DSGA, instead, it suffers a heavy reduction (from 616 in the current school year to 569 in the next school year) determined by the effects of school sizing which have reduced Apulian schools by 44 units. Others 14 seats of DSGA will be returned unavailable for mobility (4 in Bari, 2 in Brindisi, 1 in Foggia, 4 in Lecce and 3 in Taranto) awaiting sizing for the 2025/26 school year.
During the meeting we asked to assign the additional staff and the 3% flexibility quota as a priority to the schools being sized which, as widely expected and reported in recent months, should function with a totally insufficient number of school collaborators and administrative assistants. It will also be crucial to assign the ATA staff in derogation of personnel (?) in good time so that the offices can proceed to reallocate the places of service to school collaborators and administrative assistants aspiring to temporary assignments and uses, who should be declared losing places in the next hours as a result of the application of DI sizing and staffing tables (informed by parameters that are now old and largely outdated over time which do not integrate the increased complexity of our schools, exacerbated by the continuous sizing that has taken place over time).
It is, therefore, an insufficient staff to guarantee the functioning of the Apulian schools, especially in the auxiliary, administrative and laboratory services which have become essential and almost ordinary, given the large amount of resources that pour into our institutes – too often even when not requested and programmed, most recently with the elusive “summer plan” that came out of Minister Valditara’s hat. Services for which the over 700 school collaborators are essential hired at the beginning of the school year on Southern Agenda and PNRR and who yesterday celebrated their last working day. In view of the reassurances provided by the Ministry of Education, also in the conciliation tables opened for the declaration of the state of agitation of the ATA staff and school directors by the FLC CGIL, in fact, to date the rule that provides for the termination of employment contracts on April 15th has not been changed. The previously announced protections guaranteed by the Minister and the parliamentarians who in recent days reported on the work on the extension of the contracts of school collaborators have not materialized and as of this morning, after having lost the contracts of the administrators and technicians hired on Agenda Sud and PNRR, the schools will also be forced to release school collaborators. Ministerial note no. 2845 sent to schools at 1.40pm today is the clear acknowledgment of the absence of a quick and immediate solution to the issue underlying the FLC CGIL agitation. Beyond the minister’s bombastic words, the facts demonstrate the absence of consideration for the daily life of educational institutions and the workers who work there.
We will continue to monitor, to pressure the Ministry and to mobilize at all levels to guarantee the employment follow-up of all the temporary ATA workers, of all the supernumerary workers triggered by the school downsizing and so that at the same time the best possible functioning of our educational institutions discharged from the school is guaranteed. reckless government management.
