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Greece Puts 2,000 Teachers On Firing Line

olmeMoving quickly to follow the orders of international lenders to cut the public workforce, Greece has put 2,000 teachers in the so-called mobility scheme in which they will be involuntarily transferred or paid 75 percent of their already-reduced salary for up to eight months and then fired if another position can’t be found for them.
The Teachers Union OLME held a protest outside its offices in Athens and in other cities as well across the country.
Under a bill passed last week by the Parliament,  a number of teacher specializations were abolished from the curriculum, including 388 school nurses and 335 teachers in early childhyood care. No Parliament worker will lose their position and they are also being exempted from further austerity measures as the government has identified lower-paid workers to be axed while sparing managers, consultants and those with higher salaries.
The Greek Ministry for Education claims that at least half of the suspended teachers will be offered placements in services in the Greek Ministry for Health, media reports said. “We will oppose to this politics and we will continue our struggle during the summer and in September,” OLME President, Themis Kotsifakis, pointed out.
OLME has extended a call to other sectors currently in a state of civil mobilization to meet at their offices on July 24 in order to “discuss and coordinate actions against the suspensions and dismissals against the government and Troika politics,” a reference to the country’s international lenders, the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB).
OLME stated that “nobody will be missing from our schools on the 1st of September” and urged the local ELME teacher unions to continue with their actions.

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