No strikes until 2024. Teachers to get a salary raise
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- 28 Sep 2022
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The wages of teacher and non-pedagogical workers in education are set to increase.
Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced the aforementioned on July 13, when the government wrapped up negotiations with the trade unions. The agreement comes after a major teachers' protest in mid-June, prior to which the unionists announced a strike alert.
Head of the unions of workers in education and science, Pavel Ondek, now confirmed that as long as the new collective agreement remains in place, there will be no strikes.
"The collective agreement should be signed today," Ondek told the press conference as quoted by the TASR newswire. It will be valid until the end of August 2024.
President of the Confederation of Trade Unions Associations Monika Uhlerová, who was part of the negotiations, said that the ideal negotiation ends with both parties dissatisfied.
"Negotiation is about compromises, both sides having withdrawn from their demands," she said as quoted by TASR.
Real salaries may still go down
Teachers will receive a raise of 10 percent as of January 2023 and 12 percent as of September 2023. Other workers in education will see their salaries go up by 7 percent as of January 2023 and 10 percent as of September 2023.
In addition, there should be a one-off payment of €500. The government says it set aside about one billion euros to cover the costs of increased pay for people in education. Read More...
