Many professionals expressed their readiness to go on strike. Latvian doctors, dissatisfied with what the state has earmarked in the national budget to health care, announced a strike, when all medical staff, except ambulance workers, are called not to go to work. Latvian teachers threatened once again to hold a strike. If the government will not provide guarantees to the pay rise of the teaching staff, they will be out in the streets in March, 2020.
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