German teachers rally over payments

According to Press TV, teachers in Germany’s capital, Berlin, have rallied in protest against unfair payments.

The rally, which has been staged two weeks after schools reopened in Germany, brought more than 3,500 teachers and educators to the streets of Berlin.
The demonstrators said the young instructors who started working after 2004 are given less benefits in the social security and the health system. The teachers have planned to hold several other rallies during the week to make their voices heard by the German politicians before the next month’s parliamentary elections in the country.
According to the latest poll conducted by a German TV channel, the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), will gain 42 percent of the votes in the elections while Free Democratic Party (FDP), SPD, the Greens and the Left will respectively secure 5, 25, 12 and 8 percent of the polls.