{"id":65709,"date":"2022-09-06T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-threaten-to-fight-back-if-govt-doesnt-pay-pre-october-2018-salaries-this-month"},"modified":"2022-09-06T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:41:38","slug":"teachers-threaten-to-fight-back-if-govt-doesnt-pay-pre-october-2018-salaries-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/teachers-threaten-to-fight-back-if-govt-doesnt-pay-pre-october-2018-salaries-this-month","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Threaten To \u201cFight Back\u201d If Govt Doesn\u2019t Pay Pre-October 2018 Salaries This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has warned that teachers will \u201cfight back\u201d if the government does not pay them their pre-October 2018 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Public schools reopened on the 5th of September amid reports of teachers \u201cgoing slow.\u201d Said the union in a Twitter post:<\/p>\n<p>The government should never assume that Unions have retreated from the fight for USD 540. We just gave them a long rope. We requested a USD 200 cushion &amp; they ignored our call. September payday is coming, if the government doesn\u2019t pay pre-October 2018 salaries workers will fight back!<\/p>\n<p>Teachers and the rest of the public service, have been at loggerheads with the government since 2019 over salaries after the government decided to pay them in the local currency that was pegged at 1: 1 with the United States dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Reintroduced in June 2019, the Zimbabwe dollar has constantly been losing value against the USD thereby eroding workers\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the government has been taking time to review salaries, offering non-monetary benefits instead. Treasury says the government does not have enough foreign currency to pay its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the government responded to strikes by deploying the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to thwart the demos while some workers were suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Poor salaries have resulted in the mass exodus of workers to neighbouring countries or overseas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has warned that teachers will \u201cfight back\u201d if the government does not pay them their pre-October 2018 salaries. Public schools reopened on the 5th of September amid reports of teachers \u201cgoing slow.\u201d Said the union in a Twitter post: The government should never assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1909,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-65709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-amalgamated-rural-teachers-union-of-zimbabwe-artuz","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teachers Threaten To \u201cFight Back\u201d If Govt Doesn\u2019t Pay Pre-October 2018 Salaries This Month - 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