Teacher unions to take action for salary anomalies once again: CTU
View(s):The teacher unions will collectively disrupt education in schools from March onwards if the Government does not heed their requests for a revision of their salary anomalies, the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) said last week.
CTU General Secretary Joseph Stalin said the request for the salary revisions had been postponed for several years by consecutive governments and no solution had been granted. He said the governments had repeatedly been using delaying tactics by appointing committees to review the salaries of teachers and principals.
So far, three committees had been appointed and all three reports prepared by the committees had been shelved without any redress for the aggrieved parties, Mr. Stalin said.
The present Education Minister G. L. Peiris had also promised but there were no signs to revise salaries so far.
An earlier attempt by unions to hold a major protest in March 2020 had to be shelved because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The latest report prepared by the Education Ministry said a sum of Rs. 54 billion would be needed to grant salary revisions to the 247,000 teachers and principals serving in more than 10,000 schools in the country.
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