Teachers have provided new salaries requirements, saying that their service conditions are now inaccurate.
Teachers’ unions have written to the government, but so far, they were ignored.
“As such, I want to pay your attention to the need for an urgent meeting to review salaries. May I also pay your attention to the last salary review meeting last year, and we have almost ended with the first quarter of 2025 without the government showing any signs On a meeting in this sense, “the Progressive Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said, Secretary -General Raymond Magengwi said in a letter to the Minister of Labor, Edgar Mew.
The Federation of Rural Teachers, destroyed in Zimbabwe, said the Secretary -General Robson indicates that the teachers are receiving salaries in the government.
“Like a union, we are concerned about the continued payment of salaries that are in a state of salaries, which in Artuz, we filter” dog taxes “, and in this way, we wrote to the government several times.
“We have tried to involve the government to address this issue, but the government was escalating in a solution to the current crisis that attracts our profession in terms of luxury.
“Therefore, we say as a union, we will speak the language that the employer understands well, the work language. We will use our constitutional rights in terms of the demonstration that is in line with issues related to the strike so that the government addresses these issues urgently.”
GODWill Taderera said they support the meeting between the unions and the employer.
“For example, last year, our request was $ 840 and after October 2018, we reached 540 USD. Currently, we talk, through research, we deserve more than $ 1,000.”
He said that Zimta wanted the government to gradually raise the salaries of teachers until it reaches at least 840 USD before separation to more than $ 1,000.
