More than 200 Education Workers Left Jobless since early 2025 due to Political and Trade Union Discrimination

School(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/DS)

More than 200 education workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2025 due to political, trade union or other types of discrimination, the Independent Union of Education Workers of Serbia (NSPRS) said in a statement on Nov. 10.

In seven days, according to the statement, more than 200 education workers signed up for a questionnaire through which the union collects information about the colleagues who have been left jobless due to political, trade union or other types of discrimination since early 2025. The questionnaire will remain active until the formation of the new government in Serbia, when the Trade Union, in coordination with the new education minister, will try to contribute to ensuring that justice is satisfied in each of the reported cases, it is said in the statement. 

The Trade Union also said that it will soon publish a questionnaire for education workers who have preserved their jobs, but have suffered other types of injustice, harassment, insults, mobbing, or discrimination by their principals, school board members, representatives of school administrations, union leaders, or members of the ruling parties. 

The Union stressed that it is necessary to ensure that many problems in the education system will not be swept under the carpet, which have been caused by the people who tend to unswervingly serve the regime, to the detriment of the quality of teaching, their colleagues and pupils and students.