dewitty1 reblogged
What’s going on in Hungary:
- Teachers have been trying to go on strike because of their basically unlivable wages, which are federally controlled.
- The government took their right to strike away.
- The teachers still wouldn’t shut up, organizing protests and mini-strikes, basically (with the help of the students! One of the biggest protests was absolutely student-led)
- Some of those who did were threated that they would be fired if they kept it up.
- They kept it up.
- Today several teachers were fired from a pretigious high school. One of them was pulled from class and was fired in the middle of the corridor, effective immediately.
- The students, parents, and teachers pulled together a protest by this evening, demanding the firings to be made null and void.
Update:
- There was a huge protest for the teachers on Wednesday, starting with a several kms long living chain in the morning, and culminating with such a mass of people in the evening that news outlets couldn’t do live from the site because the sheer amount of cell phones in the area paralyzed the network
- The government-funded media barely covered the protests. They were comoletely left out from the 10am news, and in the evening “the egg museum has a new exhibition” was more important than the protest
- The next day some school district offices sent out letters of reprimand to teachers who took part in the protests. Students formed a living wall, not allowing the messengers inside the school buildings, so they couldn’t hand over the letters
- This morning, the teachers who were sent these letters went over to the school district offices (with their lawyers) to pick up the letters personally. Some 1000 people showed up to show support, chanting “We are with you,” “no teachers, no future,” “[name of superintendent] come out and talk to us”
Update: the phone numbers have been taken off the websites of the school district offices implicated in the events, because they got so many people calling them to complain and tell them off.
The phone numbers are now circulating in social media
