Dissatisfied teachers to protest in Bratislava next week

The Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU), which has declared a strike alert and threatened to organise a full-fledged strike as of January 25, has organised a demonstration that is due to take place on the SNP square in Bratislava on Monday. Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Juraj Draxler is meeting dissatisfied teachers prior to this demonstration on Thursday January 21. The Slovak Teachers Initiative declared a strike alert due to the long-term ignoring of teachers' demands to provide adequate financing of the education system. Teachers expect the Government and Parliament to adopt specific measures to resolve this situation. If they don't, teachers will launch an unconditional strike. More than 5,400 teachers from almost 300 schools have signed up for the strike.