Lithuania announces biggest teacher strike

The teaching staff of Lithuanian educational institutions intends to start the largest strike on Monday, the main demand of which is to increase wages. In this regard, some schools may temporarily stop their work, reports the national broadcaster LRT.

The publication emphasizes that the coming week in a number of educational institutions will begin with protests of teachers. Organisers suggest it could escalate into the biggest performance, with up to 600 schools able to join, and the action could last for weeks.

Andrius Navitskas, head of the Lithuanian Education Workers’ Union, said that exact figures on the number of teachers who supported the protest will be made public on Monday morning.

According to LRT, citing the words of Navickas, the union records the high readiness of teachers to participate in the action. According to him, some educational institutions will stop working completely, while in others only part of the collective will join the strike. It is expected that from the beginning of the week, several hundred schools will show protest moods, and in the future their number may increase to 500-600 institutions.

The main reason for the dissatisfaction of Lithuanian teachers was the unsatisfactory level of their income. In this regard, the trade union organization demands an increase in the basic salary coefficient of educational workers by 10 percent.

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