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Lithuanian Airports said Tuesday that Lufthansa has cancelled all flights between Vilnius Airport and Frankfurt scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week.

Four flights to and from Vilnius Airport will be cancelled on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a strike by Germany's airline Lufthansa staff, a spokesman for Lithuanian Airports says.

The Lithuanian Education Employees’ Trade Union (LŠDPS) intends to launch a second strike on 22 November, after the previous one in September-October. The organisation demands raising teachers’ salaries and creating better working conditions.

Turkish workers building a stadium in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas have gone on strike, saying they have not received their wages for more than six months now, the 15min online news site reported on Friday.

On Friday, four of five education trade unions called off their two-week strike, which had begun in an attempt to raise teachers' wages.

The teachers' trade unions involved in the nearly two-week-long strike for higher wages in Lithuania have announced that they are prepared to call off their strike as early as Friday. Audrius Jurgelevičius, the leader of the Lithuanian Education Trade Union, told LRT that he believes that the trade ...

A meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Minister of Education Audronė Pitrėnienė on Wednesday morning did not produce an agreement to set aside additional €7 million for teachers' salaries. Instead, the government has pledged to find €2 million to meet striking teachers' dema...

Former Culture and Education Minister Darius Kuolys said that the teacher’s unions had decided to strike at the right time with elections on the horizon and that they should be thanked for putting education at the centre of the national political agenda.

Child rights ombudswoman Edita Žiobienė says that the ongoing teachers' strike could have negative effects on their students' performance.

Teachers' unions and the government should find an agreement by means of a dialogue and not by demonstrating a "force position", Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says.

Lithuanian Teacher‘s Unions will continue their strike action on Thursday but negotiations with the Government may not restart until Monday.

Government negotiators have failed to convince teachers' unions to call off a strike on Wednesday as talks about higher pay continues.

The Lithuanian Prime Minister has rowed back on comments linking the teacher unions’ strike to ‘Russian influences’ after union leaders called on the Prime Minister to put names to his allegations of Russian influence on the unions.

Lithuania's ruling parties have agreed on a three-year plan for incrementally raising teachers' wages as unions continue to strike.

As teachers across Lithuania continue a strike, demanding higher wages, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius claims trade unions behind the strike are "influenced by Russia".

Teachers' strike is to continue as unions say the government has failed to present an offer that would meet their demands. At least 70 education institutions plan to strike until the Lithuanian parliament convenes for its spring session in March.

Lithuanian teachers are to begin a strike on Monday as government representatives and teacher's unions continue talks about raising wages.

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.

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.