News analysis: Latvia's the loser in teachers strikes
Dec 09, 1999
By Blake Lambert
RIGA - After five weeks of heated rhetoric, stop-start negotiations, and two one-day strikes, the salary dispute between Latvia's teachers and the government has temporarily ended.Come Jan. 1, the lowest-qualified teachers, who work a 21-hour week, will earn less than 100 lats a month ($172).Parliament approved its 2000 budget, which provided the Education and Scientific Workers Union of Latvia, or LIZDA, with 8.24 million lats, or 20 million lats less than it demanded and was promised by the pr ...
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