The unions are considering taking steps to push through their pay demands.
They said they are likely to wait some time for whether Liska manages to push the pay increase through in the government. As a result of a high inflation, educational workers' real wages have decreased, the unions say. In addition, in Czech govt approves programme in support of science, research ...
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Czech Nationalists' complaint against PM Topolanek shelved ... some regions school budgets are lower than the 2.8 percent increase the government previously promised, the unions say. In the first two months of the year, inflation in the Czech Republic reached 7.5 percent and in March 7.1 percent. Liska said in his opinion there exists a chance for the situation to be solved this year. "I don't want education, the government's priority, to remain only a priority written on paper, but it must really be reflected in the country's budget policy," Liska told journalists. He said he wants to point in the government not only to the high inflation and the decrease in real wages, but also to the difference in teachers' pay in the Czech Republic and abroad. The decisive moment will be the negotiations on the 2009 state budget bill, Liska said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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