IOL latest.png SADTU threatens strike if teacher posts are cut Zintle Mahlati, IOL, Johannesburg, 21 September 2016 Teacher union SADTU says it will embark on a provincial march if the education department in Mpumalanga does not cease its plans to cut more than a thousand teacher posts. The union's provincial structures said on Wednesday that it held lunch-time pickets, at district offices in the province, instead all day protests in order not to disrupt learning. It said the department's decision to reduce teacher posts from 32 637 to 31 206, resulting in 1 400 posts being frozen, does not make sense considering the shortage of teachers in many schools. The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) said this will leave many temporary teachers without jobs. Diabolical "This diabolic and vicious declaration happens in the face of increasing learner enrolment figures and a demand for more teachers' posts to be created. Scores of temporary teachers are going to be jobless in January 2017," said SADTU's Walter Hlaise. SADTU is also worried that the department has closed all vacant posts in the province and any vacancy that arises, due to retirement or resignation will not be filled. "This has resulted in the elimination of circuit manager posts and other key strategic teacher curriculum support posts," added Hlaise. The union warned that it will continue with its daily lunch-time pickets in culmination of its provincial march on September 29, if the department does not retract on its plans. From: <http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sadtu-threatens-strike-if-teacher-po sts-are-cut-2071142> http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sadtu-threatens-strike-if-teacher-pos ts-are-cut-2071142 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14162 (20160922) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001801d214d5%24865ee040%24931ca0c0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
