Teachers accuse Government of “collapse” of education

The Kosovo government is destroying the state pillar, education, these were the words of teachers who had come today from different Kosovo municipalities to protest in Pristina on the occasion of May 1st Workers' Day.

They have indicated that the Government of Kosovo has closed its doors to the union and is not discussing their demands, which according to them, this approach of governance is promoting the departure of workers from the country.

School teacher “Drenica” from the village of Skokyright, Musa Aliu, has said that the teachers' rights are being denied and that this government is breaking up the education issue in the country.

We've come here to claim the right of the teacher, who every time the teacher's right has denied you. This government is particularly blowing up the whole issue of education that education is the state pillar, the same pillar is now being destroyed by this government. It's the body of shame”, he said.

Aliu has said that the government's own behaviour towards these issues is initiating population migration.

And their kind of behavior that they're making is starting to move on to migration, because every single youth we're seeing today's biggest conversation is that there's no school in this country, there's nowhere to be employed. He does the faculty, the magistrate, he works as a waiter. That's where you want me to go more than”, he said.

Isuf Lajci, chairman of the pre-university Education Union in Pec, has said they want the government to dialogue with them and respond to their demands.

The goal of this protest is to let the government know once more that it will sit down to talk, have a social, real and honest dialogue. By fulfilling that dialogue and our demands. We are for those who signed a collective contract years ago to be applied to the table without having to go to the Court to realise our rights. Even until today, these guys didn't literally have the contract, but we did it through the courts, and then there's both government and municipality and the whole chain of society”, he said.

He has stressed that teachers are being treated as if they were not Kosovo residents, according to him, such an approach of the government not to sit down and talk has never happened.

The government's treatment that is coming to teachers is starting from the month of September that has begun the distribution barriers of books to this day as if we were not Kosovo residents. We've had trouble before the war, with the invading governments back then, we've had problems even after the war, but these things so that the government won't sit down and talk to people of the pencil, people who educated them to come to that position I can't even imagine exist in the world this”, he said.

Lajci has said that among the main actors causing workers to leave the country is the government's real dialogue with workers.

The one among the main acts that is causing workers to quit their jobs, starting in the SBAS, and going to other workers in other sectors is the government's non-refuge towards workers who have given them the vote. Let's just say as much as you want us to create conditions, there's no conditions for us”, he said.