A teachers strike scheduled to take
place on May 17 has been called off after school unions reached
an agreement with Premier Giuseppe Conte's government in an
overnight meeting that ended early on Wednesday.
The agreement, which Education Minister Marco Bussetti helped
negotiate, entails the government setting aside more money for
pay rises in a renewal of the sector's collective contract and
pledges for solutions to the plight of teachers and other
education workers not on steady contracts.
"The government has committed itself to finding the necessary
resources for the contract renewal, guaranteeing an appropriate
increase in salaries," Conte said on Facebook.
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