Angola: Schoolteachers start 15-day strike to press for career structure

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Angola: Schoolteachers start 15-day strike to press for career structure

10:57 CAT | 09 Apr 2018

Teachers in Angola’s schools on Monday begin the first day of a 15-day strike to press demands for the government to implement measures that they say they have been waiting for since 2013.

The strike, which is to run until 27 April, was called by the SINPROF union, is the “third phase” of industrial action that was suspended about a year ago, when the Ministry of Education promised to deal with the teachers’ demands that had been on the table since 2013.

“Five year on, teachers have found no other way than resorting to a constitutional right,” that is, a strike, said the Sinprof’s president, Guilherme Silva, last week.

Teachers, he said, intended to demonstrate their “dissatisfaction” at the government’s failure to approve a new career structure for teachers, as well as to reject the ministry’s strategy of prioritising public competition for the admission of new teachers, rather than promoting teachers already in service.