Teachers fail to reach agreement with government, strike looms

Budapest (MTI) – Although the sides came closer, no agreement was reached at talks between a teachers’ strike committee and the government on Monday.

The talks focused on the amount of mandatory services to be provided under strike laws on the day of the strike teachers called for April 20, statements by Piroska Galló, the head of the PSZ union, and Imre Sipos, the state secretary for public education, said.

Sipos said the government wants the minimum services to be provided at all schools, while the teachers’ unions want the rules to apply only to certain schools.

Teachers’ organisations said earlier that two hours of civil disobedience and a warning strike were planned for this Friday in addition to the full-day nationwide strike on April 20.

The full-day strike was called by the teachers’ strike committee after talks with the government failed on the reduction of the number of teachers’ compulsory classroom hours and their administrative burdens, wage increases, free choice of textbooks as well as reducing the burden on students.

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