Outrage among Primary and Secondary school teachers in Asturias for seeing themselves at the bottom of the worst paid ladder in Spain and with gross wage differences of more than 500 euros in some cases. The solution? A Government agreement for the education which equates wages among the autonomous communities. A demand defended by teachers and ratified by unions, which consider absolutely unfair these inequities among civil servants of the same category and activity. Moreover, in Asturias Primary School teachers are not paid bonuses which are paid in other regions, such as library mentoring and coordination.

The witnesses of those teachers who have seen figures in their payrolls dancing up depending o the community they were working in are hundreds of thousands in Asturias. Juan Garrido passed his state exams in the field of Therapeutic Pedagogy in La Rioja. He spent there two years and then in a relocation process he got his post in Asturias. "I remember that the first payroll I was paid there was about 170 euros less than what I earnt in La Rioja. But the differences are not only in the gross salary, but there three-year term and six-year term bonuses are also better paid", he points out. Garrido explains that some salary gaps can be understood, like the insularity complements which are paid in the island and in Ceuta and Melilla, but "it cannot be understood that a teacher working in Castilla y León, Cantabria or Galicia earns more than one in Asturias".

Paco Martínez is professor in Biology and Geology in the Alfonso II Secondary School from Oviedo. He knows that his payroll is far from what other peers who work in Cantabria earn, for example. "I am 61 years old and although I could get retired I have been working in teaching for thirty-six years and I will not do it". This is something you do vocationally, but of course it hurts to see that there are inequities among communities. We are all State civil servants", he points out.

Abel López Busto explains his case. He has been a teacher for ten years, he spent his first five years in Madrid and then he came back to Asturias, his homeland. "the salary gap is surprising. I am headmaster in Turón school, but a headmaster in Madrid earns fifty percent more than I earn; they have an extra complement which we do not have". López Busto also thinks that it is essential to sign on a Government agreement about education where the salaries of all the teachers nationwide are stipulated and "all these nonsense salary gaps are put to an end", he concludes.