CROATIAN PRIMARY AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS GO ON GENERAL STRIKE

( Editorial: --> 0647 ) ZAGREB, June 12 (Hina) - Croatian primary and high school teachers and professors on Friday began a strike due to their dissatisfaction with their financial situation. The strike was organised by six school unions which requested of the government to increase teachers' salaries by promoting all school employees for two salary classes as of June 1, and that 2,392 kuna (about DM665) of compensation be paid to them by the summer vacations. According to union leaders, the strike will continue until the requests are met. The government at Thursday's session decided that classes in primary and high schools end on Friday and that students be able to improve their grades through next week. The general strike follows two one-day strikes of warning which were organised by the Union of Croatian Teachers' and the Independent Union of Employees in Croatian High Schools on May 20 and June 4. (hina) lml 121042 MET jun 98