Teachers organised a nationwide strike, demanding better pay and more rights. The co-chair of the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions, KESK, welcomed the protest. Striking teachers also demanded cancellation of a new law regulating the profession of teaching. The Education and Science Workers’ Union and 13 other unions wrote in a joint declaration: “No education worker, no union organized in the field of education, can be expected to remain silent and unresponsive to the practice of career steps [created by the new law] that ignore the professional experience and qualifications of teachers, further degrading the prestige of the teaching profession”
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