Teachers, who picket Ukrainian VR

Teachers, who picket Ukrainian VR (Parliament), cry out, requiring the clearing off the debts and raise the wages rate, on Tuesday, November 14, 2000 in Kyiv. The Educational Trade Union Central Committee passed the declaration to the Ukrainian people's deputies. The declaration says that the wages rate to educational and scientific-educational workers, in accordance with the Law "On Education", will be raised more then on 135%. Some 500 thousands of teachers now work in Ukraine, their average wage makes up 137 hryvnyas. Photo by Dmitryi Gavrish/ UNIAN