The teachers demand to raise salaries for all Lithuanians: prices are Western, salaries are pro-Soviet

"Prices are Western, salaries are pro-Soviet." In the end, only the teachers clearly explained the essence of life in Lithuania. The high school workers just giggle and climb through the windows like children. Doctors are killing themselves. Judges quit their jobs. Everyone else silently flees from Lithuania.

 

  ""If the state does not take care of citizens, if it does not start to increase purchasing power, everyone will suffer today - both citizens and businesses from which those citizens buy.

 

    The first step, what must be done, is to basically consider raising wages in Lithuania, because it is simply no longer possible to use Western prices with pro-Soviet wages," said Sigitas Vaitkevičius, chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Higher Education Unions (LAMPSS).

 

    LAMPSS calls for salary increases for academics, lecturers, researchers and all staff in higher education. "However, in principle, we fully understand that the Government should not limit itself to our sector alone, in principle, if wages do not increase in all sectors, we will not be able to control the economic crisis," said the chairman."