In the Cherkasy region, teachers blocked roads due to salary arrears
Teachers in the city of Kanev, Cherkasy region, were forced to block the highway due to three months of arrears in wages and vacation pay.
This was reported on the air of the Pryamoy TV channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We didn’t receive a penny during our entire vacation, we didn’t receive vacation pay. There are some savings, but they are all exhausted, there is some kind of subsidiary farming. But, in essence, we were left with nothing,” said biology teacher Andrei Glukhatsky.
Teachers also complained about the poor material support of the educational institutions themselves.
“We are constantly asking for money, looking for it, visiting patrons. This is a school, we pay all taxes, this money should go back to the school,” Svetlana Grib, the director of Kanevskaya secondary school No. 1, is indignant.
Let us note that the state allocated 23 million hryvnia for the salaries of Kanev teachers and another 7 million were supposed to be added from the local budget, but the required amount was never found.
“Perhaps we ourselves, Kanev’s teachers, are to blame. We were unable to adapt the network to the funds allocated by the educational subvention,” Segodnya quoted Nadezhda Golda, head of the education department of the Kanev City Council, as saying.
The regional education department also blamed Kanev officials for the incident.
“We were offered, since there are areas where they were saving and have free resources, to take it from them and give it to them. We had no other choice, we proposed to the ministry to redistribute this subvention to those who saved money to make repairs, restore equipment, pay some bonuses to employees, take this money and give it to Kanev, because they did not save,” explained the head of the department of education and science of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Valery Danilevsky.
As a reminder, PolitNavigator previously cited Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, as saying that the average salary in Ukraine has still not returned to pre-Maidan levels, and that wages and pensions have been falling at record levels in recent years.
Teachers in Cherkasy Oblast block roads due to wage arrears.