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Teacher unions must fight for teachers allowances not all public workers

Teacher unions now championing the call for the government to review the 4% base rate on behave of all public sector workers.
Teacher unions must concentrate on teachers’ needs.

The fight for the government to review the 4% base pay rate for public workers seems to be a fight teacher unions are taking to the government on behalf of all public sector workers instead of concentrating their efforts on teachers.

Teacher unions must fight for teachers whiles other labour unions also fight for the interest of their members.

Daniel Asante

It’s demeaning and disheartening to hear that our unions (GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT) are the ones championing increment of salaries after the labour unions accepted 4% from the government.

Why should we fight for other labour unions? Why can’t we champion the course of teachers only just as nurses did?

At this point, we should be talking more about our conditions of service rather than the increment of salary which is across the board. We need allowances, not increment.

While calling for teacher unions to fight for teachers, he enumerated allowances that teacher unions must engage the government on.

Allowances we need to push for:

1. Clothing allowance; even those who wear one or two uniforms throughout the week are given uniform allowance how much more we who change clothes every day.

2. Transportation allowance: Teachers who have vehicles are given maintenance allowance what about those who can’t afford vehicles but take car to their respective schools. We need equity.

3. Accommodation allowance: police and other workers’ lives in barracks which they do not pay. Teachers need money to pay for our accommodation.

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Just add more allowances, if our unions can move to the table with at least 5 allowances with varying percentages from 10% – 25% of our basic pay and the government even accept two are we not making progress. Why fight for increment? The unions must be up and doing.

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Teachers also have to put politics aside and fight for the collective betterment of our conditions of service.

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