“First of all (it was decided – BNS) that we are stopping our participation in the national agreement on education, due to the fact that the provisions and figures established there have not been implemented,” A. Mazuronis told BNS after the meeting of the Labor Party Council on Sunday.
He assured that despite withdrawing from the education agreement, the Labor Party supports the obligations stipulated in it and promised to support the initiatives related to their implementation in the Seimas.
“If there are some kind of private legislative initiatives in the parliament, we will certainly support them and vote for them”, said A. Mazuronis.
“Simply seeing today the reluctance of the three ruling majority parties to fulfill their commitments or the manipulation of statistics in an attempt to tighten up numbers that have nothing to do with reality when it comes to the salaries of people working in the education sector, we see no other option than to stop our participation in this agreement,” said the Chairman of the Labor Party.
The Lithuanian Education Workers Trade Union (LŠDPS), led by Andriaus Navickos, asked the budget to provide for a larger increase in teachers’ salaries – 15 percent each. from January and from September.
At that time, the Government intends to increase the salary of teachers twice by approximately 10 percent next year. This proposal was approved after the adoption of the state budget on Tuesday.
The trade union claims that inflation is compensated in this way, and 130 percent. the average wage (VDU) indicator will not be reached.
In next year’s budget, more than 350 million is additionally allocated to increase the salaries of pedagogues, teachers, researchers and non-academic workers. euros.
The national education agreement stipulates that by the end of 2024, the salaries of teachers and lecturers must rise by up to 130 percent, respectively. and 150 percent average salary.
Representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers claim that when raising salaries for the second time since September, changes in the VMU will be taken into account and additional money will be sought in the budget if necessary.
On September 1, 2021, the leaders of the parliamentary parties signed the National Agreement on Education, which, among other things, committed to increasing the share of the gross domestic product allocated to education, increasing teachers’ salaries, and cementing other obligations.
In mid-September of this year, the opposition Union of Lithuanian Peasants and Greens withdrew from it. According to her, the obligations of the agreement are not fulfilled, the education situation in the country is rapidly deteriorating, and the party cannot remain among those parties that “implement” the agreement in this way.
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2024-07-23 16:23:43
