Teachers demand higher salaries
Over 500 teachers and school personnel joined yesterday’s Labor Day protests to demand higher salaries, adequate benefits, education reforms and respect for union rights.
“Our teachers can no longer endure the sub-human work conditions in our schools wherein we were forced to teach in cramped and hot classrooms, made to take on non-teaching duties, paid salaries below livable levels and still obligated to spend on classrooms needs,” Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) chairman Vladimer Quetua said.
“We are also geared to push back harder the red-tagging against our unions and violations against our union rights, such as the various delaying tactics of the management on our collective negotiation agreement process and human rights violations against our leaders and members,” he added. READ MORE…