Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE CONTINUES AS BOTH SIDES HARDEN POSITIONS
Teachers’ unions have repeated their demands for an average salary of 648 leva for everyone working in the educational system, including non-pedagogical staff.
The strike was to continue on October 22, while Parliament discussed the vote of no-confidence, mediapool.bg said.
One week before the local elections of October 28, Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Sergei Stanishev showed no sign of giving in. A few days before, an agreement had been reached with the unions for 650 leva teachers’ salaries as of July 1 2008. Only a few hours later the unions denied having agreed to it and sent to their local sections a proposal under which salaries for teachers would reach 720 leva and that for non-pedagogical staff 420 leva. Average salary for the sector would then be 650 leva.
Sofia Echo: BULGARIAN TEACHERS’ STRIKE TO CONTINUE INTO FOURTH WEEK
09:22 Mon 15 Oct 2007
Negotiations on October 14, between representatives of teachers’ unions, government, Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski, Education Minister Daniel Vulchev and President Georgi Purvanov have not let to an agreement on the teachers’ salaries. The teachers are expected to continue their strike on October 15, going into their fourth week.
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