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Romanian President Admits To ‘Mistakenly’ Raising Teachers’ Pay

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Monday said it was a mistake to promulgate the law hiking teachers’ salaries by 50% and assumed responsibility over the act, together with the political class.
Romanian President Admits To ‘Mistakenly’ Raising Teachers’ Pay
04 mai 2009, 17:02, English

Basescu said the protests in education against the government’s decision to delay enforcing the law are the result of political decisions and that teachers should not take it out on the students.
 
“The talks, the conflict between teachers’ unions and the students and parents, on the other hand, should be moved, if we must have them, between teachers and politicians,” Basescu said.
 
“I too promulgated the law on teachers’ salaries and I assume the mistake of this act, alongside the political class,” Basescu said.
Romanian authorities met with unionists in education on Monday, in an attempt to persuade them to give up their protests.
 
Liviu Pop, secretary general of the Romanian Federation of Free Unions in Education (FSLI), said their strike plans for May 5 still stand, mentioning the unionists were presented at the talks with a document they cannot sign, because it does not present concrete data regarding "sums or deadlines".
 
"There’s nothing to talk about as long as the Government keeps issuing one ordinance after the other," Pop said.