Bytyqi reacts to warnings of teacher strike

The strike, according to them, will be held around the failure to implement the Union's demands for the establishment of the teacher's cofficiator in the Parliament Bill.

Education Minister Shyqi Bytyqi has said that there has been an agreement with the SBASK on creating a working group regarding changes that should take place in the Republic Bill.

We've got the first information from the media today that the SBASK is preparing for a one-hour strike tomorrow”.

We've actually left some open issues with the SBASK. We've been together constantly since we've expressed disappointment over the Law on the Salaries”.

I think we've had an agreement to go together as a working group, have a joint commission, the Ministry of Education and SBASK”, he said in Klan Kosova.

“I have requested that a representative of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on this commission, since at the last meeting we had with the prime minister, along with the SBASK chairman, and the finance minister agreed that we should consider and see the possibilities for what we can move to change the Bill on the Pagans”.

At the last meeting, I had requested a joint Commission that had emerged from the joint pledge with the prime minister, with Parliamentary Commissions”.

Bytyqi has said that in no way should the learning process and students be harmed.

“We have space and opportunity to work together institutionally but not to damage the learning process, students are not guilty in this middle and I consider it a damage to students”.

And we can all be guilty and not students at all, that should be an idea for all of us not at least harming students and the learning process. Beyond what we're pointing at the guilty, we're gonna have to see a way out of this” problem.

According to him, the decision to raise salaries in the education sector has a huge budget impact.

He has, however, agreed that the cofficiency that teachers have in the Bill of Salaries is not worthy of them.

We need to understand that it's not that simple to make a decision because it has a huge budget impact”.

“We as minister, I as minister, in the Bill on Salaries that will have higher career growth and this is a positive step”.

“We are able to discuss with the Parliamentary Commissions how much movement we can make in changing the cofficiency, which I think is reasonable because teachers don't deserve this cofficient that they actually have in this project, but we have to see how much it can afford to afford Kosovo's” budget.

The SBASK request is in full accordance with our request. Even when we officially submitted the application to the Ministry of Administration we sent it with almost the same co-operative, with very few changes of”.

We have received answers that is impossible within Kosovo budget”.