Education has been a hot potato for the past month. After three weeks of a general strike that kept students at home, teachers returned to classrooms on Tuesday, June 13. They returned from the protest on the eve of the two most important exams: the ZNO and the bachelor’s degree.

A protest organized by several trade unions in the field of education on May 25Photo: INQUAM Photos / Octav Ganea

The general strike, which began on May 22, left not only trade union activists negotiating with the government, but especially children and parents reeling from uncertainty on all sides.

With the adoption of the second extraordinary ordinance, peace was not necessarily declared, but rather a truce.

Although they shook hands, the unions say a general strike could be resumed at any time if the principles contained in the two emergency resolutions passed on Monday are not implemented in the text of the new wage law.

The first provides for an increase in the salary of those working in the system by 1,300 lei gross, correspondingly by an average of 25%. The second resolution provides for the award of bonuses for the teaching career in the amount of 1,500 lei net once a year.

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