Sagunto's council demands fair pay for early-years educators
At its ordinary May session, Sagunto City Council approved a motion defending the dignity and recognition of early-childhood education staff (TEI) working with children aged 0 to 3.
The motion, tabled by Compromís per Sagunt and defended by councillor Maria Josep Soriano, calls for collective agreements that truly protect workers and a legal framework against burnout in a heavily female workforce. The agreement demands fair pay to end the sector's wage gap, recognition of TEI staff as educators rather than care assistants, smaller class ratios and a second educator in each classroom, plus aligning their calendar and working hours with the rest of early-years education. It also expresses solidarity with the open-ended strike in Madrid and urges the regional ministry, employers and unions to negotiate. The motion passed with votes in favour from PSOE, Iniciativa Porteña, Vox, Compromís and EU-Unides Podem, while the PP abstained. TEI staff look after children aged 0 to 3 in nursery schools and have long earned wages close to the national minimum wage despite their educational responsibility (elperiodic.com). According to elperiodic.com.