On 21 May, around 2,000 teachers planned to picket outside the Cabinet of Ministers building to demand correct implementation of the strike agreement on balancing teachers' workload. The Latvian Education and Science Workers' Trade Union (LIZDA) has not reached an agreement with the Minister of Education and Science on the issue. The head of LIZDA said that the Ministry of Education's offer on workload balancing is "opposite" to what LIZDA and the Ministry have been discussing for the past year.
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