Some universities to launch strike as of Monday

Slovak universities are taking over the relay baton from the Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU), which is interrupting its three week long strike as of Monday. So far, lecturers from 14 universities have announced that they are joining the full-fledged strike, among them staff from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Prešov University, the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra and Comenius University in Bratislava. "This figure means that if at least one lecturer from a university is registered as being on strike as of Monday, the university will be viewed as being involved in the strike," TASR was told by Juraj Halas from the University Lecturers Initiative (IVU), which organizes the action. IVU has basically the same demands as the ISU - salary increases for teachers in regional education, and increasing the budgets of the ministries of education and interior in order to tackle differences in equipment at individual institutions.