Kallas on Teachers' Salary Demands: Money Is a Measurable Quantity and It Simply Isn't There

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Minister of Education Kristina Kallas (Eesti 200) announced during the salary negotiations of education workers that there is no money in the state budget to increase teachers' salaries and that the increase could only come from cuts. Reemo Voltri, a representative of the Education Workers' Union, warned that teachers are also ready for work stoppages.

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Since teacher salary negotiations between the Ministry of Education, local governments, and the Estonian Education Workers' Union ended with the realization that there is currently no money in the state budget for a salary increase, teachers will gather in front of the Riigikogu on September 14 to remind them of what they have previously been promised.

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It was a very sad picture when education workers once came to Toompea and the internationalist Minister of Education Kristina Kallas took over their demonstration, as a result of which the teachers only received a small increase in their salaries. Now BNS writes: “On Wednesday afternoon, negotiations between the Estonian Education Workers’ Union, the Ministry of Education and Research and school administrators will continue on the minimum salary…