After various pressures, more and more educators are joining the strike and suspension of classes, but there are also those who, intimidated by the actions of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation and the director, are withdrawing their support, according to the Education Union.
The labor organization announced that classes were suspended yesterday in a total of 138 institutions.
The Ministry, on the other hand, announced yesterday that classes in half of the total number of primary and secondary schools continued without interruption.
Yesterday, that department sent a request to initiate the procedure to determine the illegality of the strike, as they announced, with the aim of initiating the procedure before the Basic Court in Podgorica.
"This is provided for by the Law on Strike. The state has the right to check whether the strike is legal," the president of the Education Union told "Vijesta" yesterday Radomir Božović.
According to him, the state has no right not to comply with the legal obligation and pass an act on the minimum work process for nine years.
"The Constitution says that we have the right to strike," said Božović, stressing that educators are not subject to the pressures that the government has been applying since Sunday.
The Main Committee of the Trade Union will meet tonight with representatives of the Government.
The police also visited the schools, the union sees it as intimidation
Vice President of the Education Union Jovan Draskovic he said yesterday that police officers visited the striking institutions yesterday.
"Officials of the Police Administration visited many Podgorica and Montenegrin institutions. They asked for various, very strange information: how the classes are going, and the crime inspector asks this, without any order... In the school where I work, there was an economic crime inspector who asked how the classes were planned, his colleague later called the administration and asked for additional information regarding the teaching", said Drašković, asking the authorities to explain "who made such a decision and what these tests are for".
The Police Administration announced last night that their officers visited schools in accordance with the Law on Internal Affairs.
"Therefore, the tour was carried out, among other things, to get to know the facts in relation to the time, place, scope, course and manner of holding the strike and possible unannounced public gatherings from the point of view of public order and peace and the safety of citizens, especially students," they announced. are from UP.
"In relation to the allegations that during the implementation of these activities, a police officer in Rožaje photo-documented the employees of a school, we inform you that in this case we are working to establish the facts, especially in the context of the aforementioned circumstances of the actions of the police officers," said the UP.
330 educators from eight Bar schools are on strike
330 professors from eight educational institutions from Bar went on strike. Several schools held only two classes, after which students went home, and some schools tried to hold classes with non-striking staff.
This was confirmed by the "News" from the Municipal Board of the Education Union in Bar (OSP).
"In the schools that tried to hold classes with staff who are not on strike, two or three classes were in one classroom, the children did not come, so in some schools personal assistants for children with special needs held classes, sometimes for an hour, which is an unprofessional representation of classes ", was ordered from OSP Bar.
In the "Vukosava Ivanović Mašanović" kindergarten, classes take place from 7 a.m. to 14 p.m. instead of until 16 p.m. according to the regular schedule.
In Ulcinj, all institutions - one high school and four elementary schools - conducted classes yesterday according to the schedule.
There is no pressure on Kolasin educators
In the territory of the Kolašin municipality, out of eight educational institutions, only two are not on strike - the only elementary school in the city "Risto Manojlović" and the village school in Međuriječe. The "Braća Selić" high school, the "Sestre Radović" kindergarten, the School for Elementary Music Education, village schools in Morača Monastery, Kraljski Bari and Dragovića Polje are on strike.
As she told "Vijesta". Milena Milosevic, president of the Municipal Board of the Education Union, teachers who did not support the strike in institutions where the majority are on strike, generally do not hold classes. The only exception is the school in Dragovića Polje.
According to what the striking teachers told "Vijesta", and Milošević confirms it, the educators did not suffer any pressure from the directors of the institutions in Kolašin in the process of making a decision for and against the strike.
Without classes in five Pljeval institutions
In two city and three rural primary schools in Pljevlja, classes were not conducted yesterday. In Elementary School "Salko Aljković", only five teachers taught, who did not show solidarity with their colleagues. Classes were not conducted in the city primary schools "Ristan Pavlović" and "Boško Buha", as well as in rural schools Kruševo, "Radoje Tošić" in Gradac, "Jakub Kubur" in Boljanići.
President of the Municipal Board of the Education Union in Pljevlja Sandra Martić she said that classes were held at the "Bratstvo-jedinstvo" Elementary School in Kovačevići, where most of the employees supported the strike.
Classes were held regularly at the "Tanasije Pejatović" Gymnasium and Vocational High School, where a small number of educators supported the strike.
Martić said that the employees of the rural primary school in Mataruga will also join the strike tomorrow.
Half of Nikšić's institutions are on strike
Out of 26 institutions in the municipality of Nikšić, including primary and secondary schools and preschool "Dragan Kovačević", 12 went on strike. This is what the president of the Education Union in Nikšić told "Vijesta", Slavko Đilas.
"The support at the municipal level is just over 48 percent. Out of 1.374 educators, 662 signed up for the strike, although there will likely be changes in that number because some teachers supported the strike on Friday, and a number of educators took sick leave due to a viral cold, so support in those schools fell below 50 percent", said Đilas.
According to him, in some schools, additional signing of the education workers for the strike is in progress, so that number, as he said, will probably be higher.
Director of the Nikšić kindergarten Snezana Zogović she said that they work in agreement with the trade union organization, for everything that is in the message that was sent to parents yesterday.
No classes, only in Elementary School "Drago Milović"
Out of the five institutions in Tivat, classes were not held yesterday only in "Drago Milović" elementary school.
The strike was partially supported by the mixed high school "Mladost", whose students yesterday attended classes shortened to 30 minutes, and as announced by the administration of that school, classes will resume as normal today.
Yesterday, classes went on as usual in the elementary school "Branko Brinić" in Radovići, Tivatska Muzička, and the collective of the "Bambi" kindergarten worked regularly.
The people of Budva have their own requirements and their own methods
The "Danilo Kiš" secondary school collective from Budva announced yesterday that "in the best interest of the students, they will not interrupt the teaching process, but they want to express their huge dissatisfaction with the status of educators in another way."
They believe that they have been put in an unpleasant position both by the actions of the Trade Union, and no less by the relationship between the Government of Montenegro and the competent ministries.
From that Budva school, they are demanding the fulfillment of promises related to a 10 percent gross salary increase, changes to the GKU, the Law on Strikes, the General Law on Education, a significant reduction in administrative duties, the status of an official for employees in education, the abolition of the first and third classification periods, the return reimbursements for transportation, winter leave and holiday pay, increase in the amount of jubilee awards...
"We will be persistent and persevere in the aforementioned demands, timely inform the public about the measures taken by the competent institutions and, according to the results, organize different types of protests. We invite all Montenegrin educators and the entire public to support our more than justified demands", they said.
"From February 19 to March 19, we give up all regular administrative duties (if the protest continues until March 31, it will result in failure to succeed and govern for the 3rd classification period). We do not agree to external monitoring during the duration of our protest or any other form of control that can be interpreted as a form of pressure. Gathering in public places, expressing protest, at least once a week, until the requirements are fulfilled, which implies shortening the teaching process", they state from this educational school.
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