Thousands of teachers protesting against changes in education system

Thousands of teachers from all over the country are protesting in Bucharest's Victory Square against the measures taken by the government in the education system.

The demonstrators are brandishing placards with messages such as: "Education deserves a bigger slice of pizza," "Today you cut out of education, tomorrow we will beg like hell" and "Decent wages. Dignified education."

Teachers demand the government resign.

Education unions have announced that they will be boycotting the beginning of the school year, picketing the headquarters of the government and holding a protest march to the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.

The trade union federations in Education intend to draw attention to the obligation to solve the problems faced by the staff in pre-university and higher education, as well as to the fact that the employees in Education reject the political measures to narrow the government deficit passed by the government with negative effects on the education system, but, first of all, on the beneficiaries of education, the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education, the Federation of Education Unions Spiru Haret and the National Trade Union Federation Alma Mater said on Sunday in a press statement.

"We are not in the streets for higher wages, but for better conditions in carrying out education, for justice. We are in the streets because the government has taken a series of measures that directly affect our work and, implicitly, the education we offer," the unions say.

According to them, the "efficiency" measures in the field of education under Law 141/2025 will have "a much higher cost" in the medium and long term, directly affecting the quality of education, the professional and social status of education employees, as well as the future of primary beneficiaries.

"Our protest is to stop these abusive measures, by which we show that we do not agree that education and research in Romania should continue to be underfunded and disregarded. We must convince the governing class that education spending is an investment, not a cost," the trade unionists said.