Urgent : Teachers Threaten To Go On Strike

Education: Teachers threaten to go on strike!

These teachers justify their grumbling by a set of grievances against the government

A strike notice sent to the Prime Minister by the National Union of Contract Teachers and Parents' Masters (Snicomp) augurs a disrupted 2017-2018 school year. 

Back to school is [still] under threat. As usual, it would be tempting to write. Especially to basic education. Since December 26, 2017, Snicomp has sent a strike notice to Prime Minister (PM) Philemon Yang, who announces a mood shift as of January 8, 2018, the day of the return of the second quarter. 

These teachers justify their grumbling by a set of grievances against the government. And which they summarize, in "the current accumulation of two contingents of contract teachers (waves of January and September 2007) having reached 10 years of seniority and likely to be integrated into the public service. Administrative delays in the processing of the 2005 and 2006 contractual integration dossiers, the absence of physical numbers and contracts of employment for several teachers having been recruited in the framework of the previous contractualization phases, the non-publication to date by the ministry responsible for the final results of the third wave of recruitment of Capiemp and Capiet holders, the mismanagement or the inefficient use of the products released from Enieg and Eniet ".

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On the strategy to adopt, Snicomp states that "we will be present in our rooms without teaching during the first three days of the week. Thursday and Friday, we provide the minimum service. "The union also indicates that if nothing is done," other measures can be taken in a timely manner so that effective and definitive solutions are found "to their" eternal claims " ". Faced with these denunciations, and as always, the Minister of Basic Education (Minedub), Youssouf Hadidja Alim, seized the heads of deconcentrated services of his ministry. To ask them to "go through the schools in their jurisdiction ... the first three days and report on a daily basis absent teachers on the one hand, and teachers who refrain from giving lessons on the other hand. " A posture that teachers met or joined on the phone across the national territory consider "a leap forward and an act of distrust that we can not tolerate because the Minister knows that we are right in our demands." 

They denounce the fact that "instead of negotiating, she brandishes the weapon of threat." Especially since this is not the first time contract teachers have made their voices heard by a strike. On July 28, 2016 and April 5, 2017, they had already sent a strike notice to the PM for the same claims. The resumption of these charges brought by the administrations in charge of settling the problems posed sufficiently show that at other times, the Snicomp had not been heard. "Hence our decision to go to the end of our mood movement. At least, until it bears fruit, "say unanimously primary and kindergarten teachers who say they are not afraid of" the ministerial guillotine ".