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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.

It is not uncommon at all. I believe, as a teacher, having worked all around the world, a lot of the same approaches to asking a student to write an essay are similar. It is not wrong, it is just what I would call flat, especially for those students that do struggle with something creative to come u...

GRIT is something that needs to be understood by both parents and students and should be conveyed by teachers.

Lithuanian Education Minister Algirdas Monkevicius says he's ready to resign if he fails to reach agreement with teachers' on their demand to increase funding.

As Lithuanian Education, Science and Sport Minister Algirdas Monkevicius is calling a meeting with five trade unions over a collective agreement on Thursday, some teachers are staging a protest outside the ministry in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian government's 2020 budget bill, in its current form, would allow increasing teachers' salaries by 9.2 percent, Education, Science and Sport Minister Algirdas Monkevicius said on Tuesday.

Teachers from around 50 schools in Lithuania are taking part in a two-hour warning strike on Friday.

The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry, together with trade unions, plans to work out by March a fixed pay model for school teachers.

School teachers in Lithuania and Latvia are the least earning educators in Europe, according to an updated European Commission report.

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.