• četvrtak, 24 jul 2025

Workers in education continue their strike

Workers in education continue their strike
Workers in education would continue general strike because premier Filip Vujanovic could not state at today#s meeting with representatives of the Board of Strike how much the coefficient in education would be raised. This information was presented at the press conference of the Board of Strike. The Board informed Vujanovic of requests of the Union of education and negotiations conducted with minister of education, Predrag Ivanovic. "In spite of our convincing assurances that the strike would not be concluded unless the precise percent of increase in coefficients was stated, Vujanovic could not state anything concrete on that issue. He promised that wages in April would be higher, and added that concrete information would be given to the Board of Strike during the last week of March," said Danijela Bojovic, member of the Board. She added that the Board decided to prolong the decision on full stoppage of activities in schools, passed on February 4, because there were no concrete answers during their meeting with Vujanovic. Bojovic repeated that the Union requested assistance from Vujanovic for solution of this problem, because minister Ivanovic could not give any concrete answer to the most important request of the Union of education, regarding the precise increase of the coefficient. Spokesman of the Board of strike, Zvonko Pejovic, said that about 50 percents of schools had stopped all activities, while 28 percents of schools had shortened classes, and the rest were working regularly. "According to our estimations from Monday, when the Government#s decision on minimum of work in education entered into force, about five to six percents of schools decided to start the classes of 25 minutes instead of the complete stoppage of work," said Pejovic. He also said that Vujanovic did not point out to the obligation of work, which could be introduced after passing of the decision on minimum of work. "Premier agrees with the classes of 25 minutes, while teachers think that 25 minutes is not enough for normal activities," said Pejovic. They also said that the Municipal Board of the Union of education from Herceg Novi denied the information published in the daily newspaper "Vijesti", stating that schools in Herceg Novi stopped their strike. "All schools stopped the full stoppage of work, and continued their strike with shortening of the classes on 25 minutes, in line with the decision of the Government on the minimum of the working process," stated the Municipal board in its denial.