TEACHER union groups from across the country have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently review teachers\u2019 salaries, warning, under-paid educators were a danger to society.<\/p>\n
In a joint statement Monday, unions called for an immediate meeting with government on teachers\u2019 welfare at a time members were struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe the undersigned Teacher Unions in Zimbabwe, now therefore, urge the Employer to treat the issue of the review of teachers\u2019 salaries as an urgent matter,\u201d said the unions.<\/p>\n
\u201cPay teachers\u2019 salaries in United States Dollars, which they used to earn before October 2017 in line with the Purchasing Power Parity principle.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe aware that there is nothing as dangerous as having under-paid teachers in the classrooms because teachers are role models of their communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cPay an acceptable Covid-19 risk allowance to teachers as in essence they are frontline workers in the education system.\u201d<\/p>\n
The joint statement was presented by eight teachers\u2019 unions which are Artuz, Ptuz, Tuz, Zdtu, Zinatu, Zineu, Zrtu and Zimta.<\/p>\n
The educators said they were earning wages as low as $2,800 when the cost of groceries only for a family of six was conservatively pegged at $5,551 while other basics were at $2,666, based on the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
Teachers have expressed worry that despite increasing levels of inflation pegged at 700%, the educators salaries, \u201chave remained stagnant in an economic environment where the cost of everything else is continuously pointing northwards because of the galloping three-digit inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n
They said the economy has since re-dollarised with businesses \u201cnow demanding payment in the more stable currency of United States Dollars yet teachers, meagre salaries of less than US$34 are denominated in the less stable currency of the Zimbabwean Dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teachers further indicated that before the introduction of the local currency, they were earning US$550 per month.<\/p>\n
TEACHER union groups from across the country have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently review teachers\u2019 salaries, warning, under-paid educators were a danger to society. In a joint statement Monday, unions called for an immediate meeting with government on teachers\u2019 welfare at a time members were struggling to make ends meet. \u201cWe the undersigned Teacher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1388,1365],"class_list":{"0":"post-24111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-education-in-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\n