Teachers unions
have written to the Government but, to date, have been ignored.
“As such, I
want to bring to your attention the need for an urgent meeting for a salary
review. May I also bring to your attention that the last salary review meeting
happened last year and we are almost done with the first quarter of 2025
without the government showing any signs of convening a meeting to that
effect,” Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general
Raymond Majongwe said in a letter to Labour minister, Edgar Moyo
Amalgamated
Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) secretary-general Robson Chere said
teachers were earning paltry salaries in government.
“As a union, we
are worried about the continued payment of salaries which are very paltry,
which at Artuz we term ‘dog taxes' and as such we have written to the
government several times.
“We have tried
to engage the government to address this issue but the government has been
dilly-dallying in coming up with a solution to the current crisis that is
bedevilling our profession in terms of welfare.
“So we are
saying as a union we will speak with the language that our employer understands
well, the language of action. We are going to use our constitutional rights in
terms of demonstration in line with the issues to do with the strike so that
the government addresses these issues urgently.”
Zimbabwe
Teachers Association (Zimta) secretary-general Godwill Taderera said they were
in support of the meeting between the unions and the employer.
“For example,
last year, our demand was US$840 and the pre-October 2018, we had reached
US$540. And currently, as we speak, through research, we deserve over US$1
000.”
He said Zimta
wanted the government to incrementally raise teachers' salaries until they get
to least US$840 before breaking to above US$1 000. Newsday
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