The world is a fast-moving place, and you’d like to be able to ensure stability and excellent prospects for your children. Our priority is to provide it for them – but we need a bit of stability and security to do that. For the last year and a half, staff at BIS have been trying to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement to secure stable working conditions, so we can in turn ensure your children’s learning conditions.
Negotiations between the staff’s Tarifkommision (TK) with the support of the union ver.di – and the current school management have been ongoing since August 2014. Contrary to any other information you may have heard, it is the Tarifkommission, not the Betriebsrat, who have been conducting negotiations with school management. There is ample evidence to substantiate this, which is available on our website.
A collective bargaining agreement was ready to be signed at the beginning of term in August 2015. The BIS board have, since then, repeatedly stated their refusal to do so. A collective bargaining agreement, as opposed to a works agreement, achieves an optimal, stable working and learning environment for your child by giving staff a voice.
Only a collective bargaining agreement can ensure stable and attractive working conditions that will attract and maintain the highest quality teaching staff and, subsequently, best and most successful education for your children.
Give Us A Voice!
Negotiations between the staff’s Tarifkommision (TK) with the support of the union ver.di – and the current school management have been ongoing since August 2014. Contrary to any other information you may have heard, it is the Tarifkommission, not the Betriebsrat, who have been conducting negotiations with school management. There is ample evidence to substantiate this, which is available on our website.
A collective bargaining agreement was ready to be signed at the beginning of term in August 2015. The BIS board have, since then, repeatedly stated their refusal to do so. A collective bargaining agreement, as opposed to a works agreement, achieves an optimal, stable working and learning environment for your child by giving staff a voice.
Only a collective bargaining agreement can ensure stable and attractive working conditions that will attract and maintain the highest quality teaching staff and, subsequently, best and most successful education for your children.
Give Us A Voice!
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
• Conditions of work and employment for teachers at BIS are inferior to those of the Bavarian state public school system?
• Teacher turnover at BIS is considerable. In 2014-2015 –when there was a promise of improved working conditions on the back of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), it decreased. Good working conditions secured by a CBA will keep experienced teachers at the school.
• For BIS to be at the cutting edge of modern education, it requires teachers who are extraordinarily talented. BIS’s current working conditions will not attract the best.
• Under German law, a collective bargaining agreement (Tarifvertrag) is a negotiated contract between employers and a union/employees to regulate working conditions.
• Under German labour law, there is no concrete definition of a works agreement (Betriebsvereinbarung). Generally, under German labour law, if there is a conflict between a CBA and a works agreement, the CBA supercedes the works agreement.
• A collective bargaining agreement was negotiated between the school management and the negotiating committee (Tarifkommission) in the 2014-2015 school year. In August 2015, this CBA was ready to be signed by the BIS board of directors. To date, the CBA is still waiting to be signed.
Like to know more? Contact us at: [email protected]
IT’S AN EDUCATION FOR ALL OF US
• Conditions of work and employment for teachers at BIS are inferior to those of the Bavarian state public school system?
• Teacher turnover at BIS is considerable. In 2014-2015 –when there was a promise of improved working conditions on the back of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), it decreased. Good working conditions secured by a CBA will keep experienced teachers at the school.
• For BIS to be at the cutting edge of modern education, it requires teachers who are extraordinarily talented. BIS’s current working conditions will not attract the best.
• Under German law, a collective bargaining agreement (Tarifvertrag) is a negotiated contract between employers and a union/employees to regulate working conditions.
• Under German labour law, there is no concrete definition of a works agreement (Betriebsvereinbarung). Generally, under German labour law, if there is a conflict between a CBA and a works agreement, the CBA supercedes the works agreement.
• A collective bargaining agreement was negotiated between the school management and the negotiating committee (Tarifkommission) in the 2014-2015 school year. In August 2015, this CBA was ready to be signed by the BIS board of directors. To date, the CBA is still waiting to be signed.
Like to know more? Contact us at: [email protected]
IT’S AN EDUCATION FOR ALL OF US