NEWS

15/04/2019

12:13

Broniarz:

We're Entering Our Second Week of Strike, No Changes. An Appeal to the Prime Minister for an Immediate Meeting.

- We are continuing into the second week of our strike, and no changes are occurring in this regard. The presidium of the main board, as we informed you last week, has upheld the decision to continue the strike action. At the same time, we have approached the government with a proposal for urgent talks on salary issues. This proposal has not been accepted by the government in any way. Meanwhile, the government side, also today through the statement of Mr. Prime Minister Gowin, has rejected any possibility of negotiations. Simultaneously, the government side continues with a distorted or untrue rhetoric, concerning the manipulation of data related to our salary increases. Depending on the circumstances in which it is stated, the Prime Minister either sums up the increase from two years or operates only with averages resulting from the degree of professional advancement. However, it absolutely does not address our salary demands - said Sławomir Broniarz during a press conference. - We do not accept the argument that the state budget has already given what it was going to give. We are absolutely convinced that every employee, not just teachers, should first be paid a decent basic salary, and only then talk about various social buffers. We want to earn normally, earn decently, so that we don't have to rely on welfare and loan funds. Hence our appeal to the Prime Minister for an immediate meeting. We regret to inform you that the Prime Minister has not responded to this at all, sending us off into some unspecified future - added Broniarz.