Teachers in Spain Launch 3-Day Strike
Spanish state schoolteachers started a three-day strike Tuesday, leaving some 6 million schoolchildren without classes in a worsening pay dispute, unions said.
Thousands of teachers marched in Barcelona demanding the resignation of Education Minister Jose Maria Maravall, who has resisted their pay demands in lengthy negotiations marked by nine days of strikes over the last two months.
Unions said they hope 50,000 teachers will take part in a protest march in Madrid today, when university professors are scheduled to join the strike.
Ministry officials said the cost of meeting the demands of 250,000 teachers would be $1 billion and that they could not improve the current offer of $290 million.
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