Salerno, the union rises up for the teacher fired because she has a 'teaching diploma'

Una sentenza della Corte di Appello di Salerno decreta il licenziamento della prima maestra con diploma magistrale. I giudici hanno deciso che una maestra di scuola elementare, quarant’anni, non ha più i requisiti per restare nelle graduatorie dei precari storici in cui era entrata nel 2015, con sentenza in primo grado favorevole emessa dal giudice del lavoro di Salerno. Quindi la maestra perde, insieme al diritto di restare in Gae, anche l’immissione in ruolo ottenuta l’1 settembre del 2017 dopo aver superato il primo anno di prova in una scuola elementare di Giffoni Valle Piana.
The headmaster of the school where the teacher works will be responsible for terminating his employment contract, the Education Authority said.
This is a case that has never happened before in Italy and that risks representing a worrying precedent for the over fifty thousand teachers with a teacher training diploma in the rest of the country who have been fighting since last December, that is, since the plenary session of the Council of State decided that the teacher training diploma dating back to the 2001-2002 school year is no longer valid for inclusion in the sliding rankings for the role. In Salerno, three hundred teachers are in the balance, twenty of whom are already in tenured positions. The Appeal ruling supports the Miur, which had appealed against the first-instance ruling of the labor judge issued on December 2, 2015 in favor of the teacher.
A demonstration is ready in Rome in front of the Ministry of Education. “This is a unique case in Italy,” denounces Vincenzo Pastore, general secretary of Cisl Scuola, a few hours after the government’s decision to freeze the positions of qualified teachers for 120 days, “we find ourselves having to deal with the first dismissal of a qualified teacher previously included in Gae as a result of a ruling by the labor judge. We need a regulatory intervention that will fix the situation forever without wasting any more time. Terrible scenarios are opening up,” denounces Pastore, “I see a serious disparity in treatment. There are those who have the role and those who are fired despite having the same qualification. This is not the way to go.”
“It’s the end of a dream, I feel lost,” the fired elementary school teacher vents. “I feel like I’ve been made fun of. I no longer have faith in justice,” the teacher told her lawyer Marta Borghese.