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Thousands of teachers across Europe protest new wage laws amid continent-wide pay disputes

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Thousands rally across Europe as teachers protest new wage laws they say will “condemn them to poverty,” with Romania’s largest education unions estimating 20,000 demonstrators in Bucharest alone on Wednesday. The protests, timed to coincide with national exams, mark the latest escalation in a continent-wide dispute over teacher pay that has seen educators in Finland, Germany and Romania take to the streets within the same week. In Romania, the Spiru Haret and Libera trade federations told Agerpres that the turnout in front of government buildings would reach “around 20,000,” while organisers in Bucharest distributed leaflets reading “Enough! Education demands respect.”

The immediate trigger is the new draft law on teacher salaries, which unions say freezes wages at levels that do not cover basic living costs. “This law condemns us to poverty,” said a spokesperson for the Spiru Haret federation, speaking to HotNews.ro on Tuesday night. The legislation, published on 10 June, would cap salary increases at 2.5% for 2026, below the country’s projected inflation of 4.8%, effectively eroding real incomes for the third consecutive year.

In Finland, where teachers have staged rolling strikes since April, the government’s decision to exclude educators from a 3.5% public-sector pay rise has deepened the dispute. Piritta Karunen, a teacher in Espoo who has collected lost property from local schools for 20 years, told Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday that the clothing children wear to class now visibly signals wealth gaps. “You can see the divide in the labels on their coats,” she said. “Some children arrive in brand-new winter gear; others are still wearing clothes we donated last winter.”

Across the continent, the protests reflect a broader squeeze on public-sector wages. In Germany, Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday that even highly qualified managers who lost jobs during the recent tech downturn are struggling to find comparable positions, underscoring the fragility of middle-class incomes. Four executives profiled by the paper described “existential uncertainty” after months without work, despite CVs that once commanded six-figure salaries.

Romania’s education ministry has not responded to requests for comment, but the prime minister’s economic adviser told Agerpres on Tuesday that the government remains “committed to fiscal responsibility,” a phrase unions interpret as code for continued austerity. The draft law is expected to come to a parliamentary vote on 25 June, with the education committee scheduled to meet on Friday to finalise amendments. Analysts at the European Policy Centre in Bucharest say the dispute risks destabilising the school calendar, as teachers in several counties have already pledged to boycott exam supervision duties.

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