00:02In Libya, a teacher's strike over pay has shut schools and delayed the start of the school year,
00:08rallying educators across the oil-rich but politically divided country.
00:13Their demands include higher salaries, health insurance and compensation for overtime.
00:24We've moved from sit-ins to a general strike.
00:27We will not resume classes until our demands have been met.
00:31This is the position of all teachers in Libya.
00:36Classes for some 1.6 million public school students were due to start in early September
00:41but have been postponed indefinitely as teachers regularly take to the streets to protest over unmet demands.
00:50Prices and the cost of leaving keep rising. Teachers purchasing power is now heavily affected.
00:55Every day we see various sectors securing pay rises. That's a good thing.
01:01But what about teachers? Our salaries for their part have not been updated.
01:07A public school teacher's monthly salary varies between 1,000 and 2,500 Libyan dinars
01:14with the equivalent of $155 to $390 at the most.
01:20A public school teacher's monthly Network Club, the most and wonderful government Síntagree
