Rama: Teachers should forget about another salary increase. Protest, by a chain of pulpits to bring water to the ruble mill

13:32 19/10/2022

Prime Minister Edi Rama during a meeting with citizens in Gjirokastër said that teachers “forget that they will have another salary increase”. According to Rama, the next increase will be for retirees, teachers, nurses, doctors, policemen and soldiers. While the lecturers said that they can take it out by doing projects.

“The ruble-sorba that Albania says is in danger, and those teachers, unions with demek, with one of the SHIK at the head who are still asking for a salary increase in today’s conditions when not only has their salary been increased, but it has been increased more than others because the government has increased some of them, and some of them have increased their autonomy, which autonomy many of them remember is only freedom, not responsibility. Autonomy is primarily responsibility. Those who go out there forget that they will have another increase because the next increase will be for the firefighters, the next increase will be prepared for the pensioners, the next increase will be for the teachers, for the nurses, for the doctors, the next increase will be for the policemen , we will make the next increase for the military, and for them my message is very simple. You are neither like pensioners, nor like soldiers, you are neither like police officers, you are neither like doctors, nor like nurses who get a fixed thing. You are autonomous, so you will receive a part from the government, a part you will take out yourself. You will earn it yourself by doing projects, introducing the university to the market, using European projects and so on. We are not here to account for them because the vast majority are in education. They are in class and they don’t go out to take selfies at the door to see the ‘eye of the hair’ and then take them out together with other media that have other problems”. said Rama.

Rama said that lecturers cannot protest and leave students without lessons at a time when their salary has increased. According to him, the teachers’ protest is led by “a figure of SHIK” and that “a chain of speakers who have confused their work at the university with the pulpit and who, for their shame, protest to bring water to the ruble mill, the ruble soup, “non grata” and hidden spies for 30 years”.

“You can’t when your salary has increased. What can we say to the firefighters? How about we tell them, go out and start a fire so that their pay goes up? We raised 7% for both firefighters and teachers. These latter have the possibility of working in private universities. Some of them in private universities do not declare all the money they receive, and for that we will look into it. Not for vetting, because now they want to scare those from the ruble with vetting. But to put a few points on the “i”. That here those who have more shout the most. I have not seen here that those who really need come out and shout as much as those who have more and pretend to cry for others. A figure of SHIK, that infamous SHIK cannot give direction and cannot be imposed on it, along with a chain of speakers who have confused their work at the university with the pulpit and who, to their shame, do protest to bring water to the ruble mill, ruble soup, “non grata” and hidden spies for 30 years. Let them protest against me, there is no problem, let them protest against the government, but to protest as if you have trouble with all the teachers, that the vast majority of them are teaching, act as if they are being blackmailed. Who is blackmailing them? It’s the first time I’m talking about them. Who is blackmailing them? If there is a blackmailed subject here, it is the government of the Republic of Albania from the screens of those who have turned those screens that are public service for you into turrets to hunt and force the government to make pacts with them. There is no pact with them.” Rama said. /broread