End-September, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed a law stipulating 50% salary raises for all employees in the education sector, which President Traian Basescu promulgated last Friday.
Also last Friday, the government decided to postpone the enforcement of the law until April 1, 2009.
Romanian education trade unionists with the Alma Mater Federation and the Federation of Free Unions in Education, or FSLI, decided to go on a warning strike November 10, followed by a full-scale strike on indefinite term starting with November 18 to protest against government’s decision to block wage hikes in education.