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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Teachers in Bulgaria’s state-run schools went on strike Monday, demanding a 100 percent pay increase, union officials said.
The Bulgarian government refused to meet the teachers' demand, with Education Minister Daniel Valchev saying the country could raise wages by 15 percent in January and another 15 percent in July, the Bulgarian Sofia News Agency reported.
Bulgarian teachers make about $320 a month.
Union leaders said about 72 percent of the approximately 100,000 public school teachers in the country joined the strike, the report said. Valchev said the union’s claim of more than 70,000 teachers on strike was exaggerated.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said the government was ready to discuss the issue with teachers’ unions but won't yield under pressure.
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