The fall break, scheduled for November 3 to 9, could drag on as teachers and kindergarten educators are considering the possibility of a general strike over their pays. Nina Horjan, the deputy principal of the Chisinau-based Stefan cel Mare High, earlier told Info-Prim Neo that a strike committee has been formed and most of the teachers gave their consent to start strike actions to protest their low salaries. On Friday, sources within the school’s administration announced that a final decision would appear on Monday, November 3. The teachers will come to work, but all classes will be canceled, and some parents have already been advised in writing to keep their children at home during the strike. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, the head of the municipal education department, Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb, said that she hasn't yet been informed formally of the teacher's intention to go on strike, but received “notifications from several kindergartens and schools, which contained appended signatures, either for or against, by education employees”. At the beginning of September the education unions picketed outside the Government building for several days demanding pay raises for all the teachers. Later, the executive accepted to raise by 17 percent the salaries of 118,000 public sector employees. However, teachers complained that the raise didn't apply to all of them and it was too low to satisfy their needs.