At the beginning of June, more than 100 teachers went on a five day strike in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia over wages.
The Wulanchabu City Board of Education director Duan Yong denies that teachers went on strike, despite Shangdu County’s primary and secondary schools being at a standstill and even college entrance exams being affected.
The wife of one teacher said:
“In Wulanchabu City, only Shangdu County and Fengzhen County school teachers' salary did not increase. This is the main reason why the teachers went on a strike.”
Local teachers said the authorities wrote them a rubber check.
Internet users in Mainland China also debated the issue, bloggers posting comments such as:
“The government officials will do anything for performance,” “Everywhere in China, the wages of the teachers are the officials’ meat case,” and “No matter how poor, we cannot spend less on education. No matter how bitter, we cannot let students suffer.”
In the last few years, teachers across China have gone on strike over delays of their salaries and subsidized payments.
Minsheng Guanch workshop statistics indicate that in 2008 there were more than 70 cases of teacher strikes or petitions.
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