Pupovci: Unintelligible university education strike, top salaries in region

The teacher's strike in Kosovo has already entered the second week, as executive leader Ramush Haradinaj's offer was rejected by the SBASK.

The latter have suggested that the prime minister's offer would not be accepted because there was an up-to-date of 0.2, which does not meet SBASK's demands.

Kosovo Centre for Education head Dukagjin Pupovci has considered the pre-university education teachers strike as reasonable.

He for Indexonline has said that the co-fficients for this category should be revised, but according to him there is no need to raise wages unless such a possibility exists.

I think that the pre-university education teachers revolt with the cofficiency defined in the Bill is reasonable, since they are not classified with employees with similar qualifications and similar workwork complexity. CoEfficients for this category must be revised, but it is not necessarily that wages will be raised if there is no way. Simply, it can reduce the value of the cofficient from 329 EUR as it is now in the amount that is affordable, which the SBASK has also requested” has been expressed.

But the head of the Centre for Unintelligible Education is considering the strike of university education workers, who have the largest salaries in the region.

For me, it is especially incomprehensible that the strike has also been attached to public universities with demands for increased cofficiency for teachers of this level, where wages are already higher than in any other region. If they were attached to pre-university education employees, I would fully understand this” action has been expressed.

Pupovci, attracting the teachers of some municipalities from the strike, has considered it political, thus pointing to municipalities where the government AAK.

The union's work is to do strikes, the state job is to get “However, it should be noted that the teaching relaunch initiative has in municipalities when the government The AAK, which shows that even within the ruling coalition itself, can have such an agenda that they support the strike, or at least have no interest in “ ”.

According to him, children are being greatly hurt, stressing that the number of lost days if that is kept up is expected to be high.

I don't think the strike is the right way to address this problem. The bill is located in the Assembly, and there is still room for changes, and it may even happen that the Bill will withdraw altogether because there are many disgruntled categories. Understandably, students are injured, having already lost 7 out of 185 working days to a school year, and it is likely that the number of lost days will be even greater” he has said.

But all this situation has been attributed to the agreement signed between the coalition PAN and SBASK, where salary increases for this sector were envisioned for 30%. Which, according to the Centre for Education director, has often been used only as a strategy to win elections.

“has become a full decade that promises of growth of wages and social payments have become a strategy for winning elections. Remember, during the campaign for the 2017 national elections, the Coalition PAN has signed an agreement with SBASK on increasing salaries of education workers for 30%, which, of course, has not been realised because it has been completely unrealistic. I hope this is the last deal of this type, because the promises of this nature endanger the country's budgetary stability. Likewise, unions are not entitled to line up with political subjects, as they gather members with different political orientations”

On the other hand, the situation of private sector workers is taking even worse Dukagjin Pupovci himself. He has stressed that over 70% of those employed in Kosovo are from the private sector, where no one talks about salary increases, while with their tax money continues to expand the gap between the private and public sector. /Indesksonline/