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Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with representatives of teachers' unions on Friday, urging them to postpone a planned strike for a few months. However, unions say they will go on with the plan to hold a strike on Monday.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has promised to personally meet with teachers’ union representatives who are planning to start an open-ended strike today, after statements by the vice-chancellor of the government claiming the strike action may be illegal deepened the crisis.

Teachers plan a march of protest and a rally in Vilnius on Monday.

Lithuania’s teachers earn less than their counterparts in Romania, even though there is a lower minimum wage there.

After meeting with government officials on Wednesday, Lithuanian teachers' unions announced they would resume strikes, saying the government has failed to show "political will" to meet their demands.

Lithuanian teachers' unions have called off a planned strike after a meeting with the prime minister on Thursday.

A week after Gediminas Grina, the former chief of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) compared the country’s ethnic minority schools to “education ghettos” and called for their removal, Klaipeda’s Russian school teachers are still upset about his comments.

The Lithuanian government has designated additional 10 million euro to satisfy demands of the teachers trade union. However, teachers still have not given up a plan to hold a strike in around 16 percent or 300 out of the country's 2,000 schools on December 8.

Lithuanian teachers have called off their strike after three days, saying it became pointless once parliament adopted national budget for next year.

The Ministry of Education and Science has announced that the current teachers' strike affects 15 municipalities. Thirty education establishments are said to be on strike: 21 general education, 7 pre-school education and 2 children's non-formal education establishments.

Part of Lithuanian teachers will start an indefinite strike on Tuesday which will involve educational workers from 120 establishments, said Andrius Navickas, chairman of the Trade Union of Education Workers in Lithuania, one of the strike's organizers.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that school teachers, particularly those teaching humanities subjects, play a special role in battling unwanted influences on the Lithuanian society from foreign powers.

According to President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, the government is increasing salaries for teachers as much as it can afford it. The president claims that it is impossible to do everything at once just in one year's time.

Part of teachers in Lithuania are holding a warning strike on Thursday, expressing their dissatisfaction over pay.

The teachers' strike planned in Lithuania this week will include at least 107 educational institutions, with teachers refusing to teach students for the first two periods in schools, pre-school teachers refusing to accept children for two hours and teachers of non-formal institutions refusing to wor...

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Lithuanian teachers are going to hold a protest rally outside the Ministry of Education and Science on 28 October.

After a dispute between the joint representation of Lithuania's education trade unions and the Ministry of Education and Science turned to a deadlock, there is still another chance to find a peaceful solution. Minister of Education Dainius Pavalkis agreed to settle the disagreement through a concili...

The Joint Representation of Lithuania's Education Trade Unions, representing five teachers' unions, on Thursday endorsed an action plan stipulating preparations for an industrial action.