Education: “Schools gear up for open-ended strike next week”

The National Union of Education workers and training has confirmed its decision to call an open-ended general strike starting from January 25th in a bid to press for the fulfillment by the relevant authorities of the education workers’ long-neglected socio-professional claims.

A spokesman for the Union told Echorouk that the decision to launch this new strike action was a response to the “empty promises” put forth for a long time now by the education ministerial department.

He said that the education ministry has so far discounted the workers’ bona-fidé claims by adopting a couldn’t-care-less attitude which only exacerbated further the social climate in the education sector

The Union’s spokesman added that the projected open-ended strike meant to involve all schools in the four corners of the country, would last seven days and would be automatically renewed as from January 26^th if need be as a means of leverage in order to secure the proper fulfillment of all the education workers’ legitimate claims.