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HUNGARIAN teaching unions have hit out at a decree they say effectively outlaws the right to strike, branding the move an unconstitutional abuse of law.
The decree rules that education is mandatory, which the unions say is a deliberate ploy to block strike action after 200,000 teachers walked out last month for the first time in five years.
In a joint statement, the Democratic Union of Hungarian Teachers and the Teachers’ Union warned against the measures imposed by the authoritarian government of President Viktor Orban.
They are opposed to mandatory coronavirus jabs and are calling for a 45 per cent pay rise on top of the 10 per cent offered by the government. Hungarian teachers are the lowest paid among the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development, the unions say.
The unions see the decree as an abuse of emergency coronavirus legislation, saying “the government had no right to make this step.”
“Decreeing that teaching is mandatory even during a strike has nothing to do with the pandemic,” the unions said in a joint statement, pledging to defend the right to strike. “If need be, we will take the case to the International Court.”
