Unacceptable educational strike, student victim

However, this strike is seen as unacceptable by parents and education connoisseurs, who say that only students are being hurt by the strike.

Sanije Bajrami is the mother of two children who continue teaching in the capital and says the strike is hurting children.

She says the SBASK should think other forms of achieving their goals rather than holding strikes, as now when the end of the first half-year is hurting students.

It's too bad for children, it's last year and they're closing grades, it's pretty bad”, she says.

The strike as harmful is also seen by Adele Wessel, who says that children have been badly damaged by the strike held earlier when teachers sought a raise in the salary coefy.

It's very bad that now it's the end of the year, it's too bad for the kids, that they've lost their lesson and now with strikes like this, very bad”, she says.

Meanwhile, Kosovo Parents' Council Chairman Ymret Resiti says they are concerned by the warning of the strike, as according to him, only students are being harmed by these strikes.

He says students are being hurt by holding strikes, for which the SBASK has had to keep in mind that they are in the process of completing the first half anniversary.

“We consider that every strike in education is harmful because it harms students' interest in learning. We need to remember that now there is the conclusion of the first half anniversary, and there are also some issues involving closing grades, other technical issues. We are against strikes, because strikes are not good. The victims are children, but the institutions of Kosovo are to blame. Every strike held in education we don't welcome, we're worried that it's only harmful doesn't benefit”, he says over the phone.

Resiti says the SBASK would have to think of other options as protests to achieve their goals and not strike, as the strike is hurting students.

The “would be better off than tomorrow's strike to be a SBASAK protest, to be a warning if anything happens, then just let it be a warning, but not on an effective strike”, he says.

Keeping the strike as unacceptable is also seeing Youth Qehaja from the EdGard Institute, which says it is unfair to students for the first SBASK option to be the strike.

He says there are other union actions that could be used by the SBASK to oppose suspension of the wage law, rather than going directly to the strike.

“The union action of the strike in more real education is unacceptable, in particular when the damage already caused last year by strikes and post-striking periods is known. So also, my hope is that the SBASK will reflect on last year's situation so that the learning process will never be damaged as it has happened... it's really unacceptable and unfair to students that this union strike action, directly, is the first and only option of the SBASK. Reminiscing that there are other union actions that the SBASK could be reviewed, so that at no time the learning process will be damaged”, he says.

Qehaja says Kosovo's educational system has no time to lose and that the strike greatly damages the education process.

We finally had the test result P The ISA, our country and our educational system at any moment do not have time to lose, and the strike is something that loses this time and is extremely damaging to the curriculum”, says Qehaja.

We remember that the ombudsman has submitted the Law on Salaries to the Constitutional Court, while the Court has made a decision today to suspend this law until March 30th 2020.

Aside from the SBASK to this decision, the Kosovo Health and Police Union have also reacted, which will also carry union action. Likewise, the Coordination Service Union has declared it will take action against this Constitutional Court decision.