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Madrid's Early Childhood Educators Intensify Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions

Workers from 0-3 year old early childhood centers protest in front of the Ministry of Education demanding fair salaries and reduced classroom ratios.

Generic image of a protest with yellow t-shirts and pot-banging.
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Generic image of a protest with yellow t-shirts and pot-banging.

Workers from early childhood centers in the Community of Madrid, on their second day of an indefinite strike, have gathered in front of the Ministry of Education to demand salary improvements, the inclusion of educational partners, and reduced classroom ratios.

The mobilization, called by the Early Childhood Education Labor Platform and CGT, denounces the “lack of institutional attention” towards the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (0 to 3 years old). Demands are directed at both the central government and the Community and City Council of Madrid, with support from CC.OO and UGT. The protesters, mostly women, wore yellow t-shirts and banged pots and pans, chanting slogans like “Fed up with precarious wages.”

Fed up with precarious wages.

The claims are focused on the Ministry of Education, led by Mercedes Zarzalejo, who they believe has the power to implement ratio reductions, the inclusion of educational partners, salary improvements, and increased resources for diversity attention. Rosa Marín, spokesperson for the Platform, described the call to action as a “success,” highlighting the unity of all management models and the mobilization of colleagues.
In a previous meeting with the Minister of Education, Milagros Tolón, a commitment was secured to include the 0-3 cycle in the new education law. Marín expressed optimism after this meeting, stating that “it was very fruitful because we have her commitment to include the 0-3 in the new regulations. Next week we will meet to see how we can do it, so that's great. It has been seen that there is this unity and that together we are stronger.”
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"It was very fruitful because we have her commitment to include the 0-3 in the new regulations. Next week we will meet to see how we can do it, so that's great. It has been seen that there is this unity and that together we are stronger."

Rosa Marín · Spokesperson for the Early Childhood Education Labor Platform
The Platform urges Minister Zarzalejo to establish an improvement plan that includes recognition of professional categories, more material resources, infrastructure maintenance, and a school calendar adapted to the needs of early childhood. Marín reiterated the invitation to the minister to dialogue and find solutions, stating that “the Ministry has full authority to carry out these demands.”
From the opposition, Más Madrid and the PSOE have urged Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida to meet with the workers. Rita Maestre criticized the mayor's lack of attention, while Reyes Maroto of the PSOE showed her support for the professionals, lamenting that “the only door that is closed right now is that of the Madrid City Council.” Regional deputy Esteban Álvarez of Más Madrid described the situation as “an example of Ayuso's Madrid, a very beautiful place for photos and propaganda, but very hard to live in.”

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