Teacher unions give gov't one week ultimatum to address conditions of service

He underscored the financial burden on teachers due to various taxes and called on the government to allocate resources for the demanded allowances.

“If the government is negotiating with the IMF for the second tranche, for us as teacher unions, what we need to get from the government is what we are fighting for our members

Our priority must be set and we are hoping that the government will just heed and approve what our leadership has been demanding.

“As you know, the kind of taxes they take from our salaries is not small and therefore the government can just get the revenue it needs from the teachers and other workers in the country to pay off the other allowances that we are demanding.

“You will realise that from the press conference, we were demanding seventeen different kinds of allowances but we thought it is wise that for the economic hardship that we are all in we have reduced it to four

That is what the officer enumerated for the public to hear

So, for me whatever that the teachers are demanding it’s the right thing,” the Regional Secretary of GNAT said.