In Poland, went on strike hundreds of thousands of teachers for more money and the recognition of their profession. Pro-government voices accuse you of the labor struggle on the backs of students.
The corridors of the Stefan-Starzynski-school in Warsaw are empty: No students, but the teachers came. Almost the entire teaching staff takes part in the strike today. You are sitting in the teacher’s room and discuss.
It’s your future, especially financially. “We want to work in,” says the English teacher, Katarzyna Lempicka. For the past 14 years it has been at the school virtually since the beginning of their teaching career. And now here you are on strike and joined up with the demands of the trade Union ZNP.
In essence, it is more to pay. A salary increase of 30 per cent in two Installments, the most recent state. It was “urgently necessary,” says Lempicka. Their teacher salaries average the equivalent of 700 euros gross, you could not survive. It was even less than the national average income.
teacher Katarzyna Lempicka (left), in discussion with colleagues in the teachers ‘ room.
respect should Express itself in wage
The majority of your own salary goes for rent. Therefore, you have to work, like many others, by the way. Her colleague, English teacher, Konrad Janiuk, is also a long time teacher. He is in the evenings or private lessons. “The time I would spend actually prefer to be with my family,” he says. He calls for Dignity and respect for the teaching profession and the need to Express themselves also in the wage.
This strike is not to come unannounced to the country. The claims are for months on the table. In the past few weeks there have been regular rounds of negotiations with representatives of the right-wing conservative PiS government.
The offer least 15 per cent, progressively more wage and a so-called social contract with a shortening of the clerkship time, more grants for classroom teachers, and less bureaucracy.
In parts of this offer, the more likely the government was close to Solidarnosc trade Union yesterday evening, and wrote. The bigger the ZNP trade Union, started so today is the strike.
Polish trade Union, according to 80 percent of the Polish schools were affected, the government spoke of 50 per cent.
In the Stefan-Strazynski-school in Warsaw in the class rooms remain empty.
political issue of the teachers strike
the whole subject is Overlaid by mutual political accusations: Government votes to keep teachers, All on the backs of students slug it out, because right now the times to start important tests, which are now endangered. Some of the PiS politicians hold the teachers to the Opposition in an election year in the hands of play.
unionists ask, however, why is it billions now in government social programs, and help for farmers, but not for the teachers. In surveys, either for or against the teachers strike form in approximately two equal-sized bearings. From the PiS supporters, almost 80 percent are against the strike. The teachers ‘ strike is a political issue in Poland.
For the teachers of the Stefan-Starzynski-school to translate it for their future as teachers. You want to make to a positive outcome, hope that it comes soon, very soon, to a solution. Until then, the class rooms of the schools are empty, their teachers being on strike involved.
teacher’s strike threatened audits
Jan Pallokat, ARD of Warsaw
08.04.2019 19:10 PM
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