The government and public school teachers agreed on Wednesday to immediately start talks on the various problems faced by state education, ending a dispute that started more than two months ago.
The agreement was announced by Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris.
The minister said he was certain that through talks conducted in good faith and with all the parties’ cooperation, “the best results will be achieved on behalf of our children’s best interest, as civil society expects.”
The head of the primary school teacher union, Phylios Phylactou said the agreement will eventually benefit the children.
“What is important is the positive conclusion,” he told state television. “We are entering a substantive dialogue.”
Fylactou did not get into details on the agreement that kept evading the two sides since early in July, saying “we bridged the gap in a positive way.”
The crisis, which was marked by a 48-hour strike last week and work-to-rule action, began in July, when the government announced a string of measures designed to streamline the operation of public schools.
Unions were up in arms when the education ministry decided to reduce the free time previously afforded to senior educators as well as to union cadres to engage in trade-union activities during normal working hours.
With the change, certain union cadres would have been forced to spend more time in the classroom.
The government has since largely walked this back, bringing a revised proposal where the top officials from each trade union will be allotted a certain amount of hours per week to engage in union work during normal working hours.
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