Teachers Warn Strikes

Educators of the 1990s in Kosovo still do not have their status resolved. The status of Albanian education workers in Kosovo from the 1990/91 school year to the 1998/99 school year has not yet been finally resolved, despite the fact that in May of this year the Bill for Recognition [...] had first passed into review.
The status of Albanian education workers in Kosovo from the 1990/91 school year to the 1998/99 school year has not yet been finally resolved, despite the fact that in May of this year the Bill for Recognition of Their Status had first been passed.
Niteman Jashari, chairman of the United Trade Union for Education, Science and Culture (SBASHK), hopes this bill will go for second reading in the Kosovo Assembly this month.
According to him, after numerous meetings they have had with members of the Parliamentary Commission for Education and seeing that MPs in the Parliament have voted the draft for the status of teachers of the years from the years before, the MPs will vote on the second reading as well.
On the basis of the conversations we have with the MPs, but even knowing that they voted the bill in the first reading, we are sure that for the sake of respect they have for the years of 90, we will vote on it in the second reading and finally the teachers and education of that time will have its own law. I believe that soon there will be a moment of second reading, and I'm saying that I'm sure Albanian MPs have respect for teachers for the '90s that will vote”, Jashari has declared news.
He added that if the opposite occurs, he does not go to the Parliament and vote the second-read bill then the SBASK will not sit back.
If the opposite occurs, it is known that the SBASK is prepared and has shown this in the past to act on the voice of teachers and actions that will certainly be syndical actions which it will assign to the SBASK Steering Council”, Jashar noted.
He also indicated that part of the debates, in meetings with the Parliamentary Education Commission, attended by representatives of the SBASK, have reacted to the categories of beneficiaries that have been made.
According to him, the reason they reacted was because of the low percentage of profit.
We remember that in May of this year, the first review of the Kosovo Albanian Education Workers' Status Bill from the 1990/91 school year to 1998/99, despite the long debate by MPs, was approved by 71 votes for, 1 against and 2 abstentions.











