The Lithuanian Education Workers’ Trade Union (LŠDPS) resumed its collective action on 22 November when 3,000 teachers went on strike. The LŠDPS and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport are at odds over teachers’ pay, workload, and reducing the number of pupils in classrooms, which led to a strike in late September and which was temporarily suspended in mid-October. In next year’s budget, the government is proposing to increase teachers’ pay in two stages: by 10 percent from January and again from September. The LŠDPS, however, wants the teachers’ salaries to be increased twice next year by 15 percent each time.
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