Mozambique | TSU: Teachers protest in various parts of the country – Carta

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Mozambique | TSU: Teachers protest in various parts of the country – Carta

3:52 CAT | 16 Nov 2022

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Teachers in the majority of secondary schools in the city of Maputo and Maputo, Inhambane and Gaza provinces, decided to strike this Tuesday (15-11) in protest at anomalies in the Single Salary Table (TSU). The teachers’ protest foresees boycotting preparations for exams.

Amateur videos shared yesterday on social networks showed groups of teachers wielding bottles and buckets of water, singing out loud “Drink water and do not complicate the government” in a reference to the President of the Republic’s latest speech.

Teachers from the province and city of Maputo who met in the Jardim dos Professores say that they are demanding, among other points, a fairer TSU framing – at Levels 16, 17 and 18 as foreseen – as well as the localisation and technical allowance they previously received.

The teachers announced that their meeting was prior notice of the strike, in order for the group not to fall into contradiction either regarding their demands or the measures which will be taken in the week of the end-of-year exams, as well as to make preparations for the formation of a single representative professional association.
“The examination phase will be the decisive moment to put pressure on the government. In the next few days, we intend to mobilize more colleagues to join the strike, since most primary school teachers are working and are controlling the exams, apparently because they are partly satisfied,” the teachers say.

“What we really want is dialogue with the government, and consideration for teachers,” they summarise.

Teachers also say that President Filipe Nyusi’s latest remarks upset them. “The president has trivialised us,” they complain. “He has made our profession insignificant. When it’s a teacher’s complaint, it’s something cheap; when it’s the judges and doctors, they get special treatment. And they were heard. We also just want to be heard, we need to be attended to. We feel like the roustabouts of the state apparatus”.

By Marta Afonso

Source: Carta de Moçambique