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TSU: Teachers Warn of Flaws in the Framework for Graduate Teachers

TSU: Teachers Warn of Flaws in the Framework for Graduate Teachers

The National Organisation of Teachers (ONP) in Mozambique warned this Wednesday, 9 November, of irregularities in the framework for graduate teachers in the new Single Wage Table (TSU), a model that has been contested by several classes in the civil service.

“N1 teachers [teachers with a degree] are the most affected by this new salary scale,” explained Teodoro Muidumbe, secretary general of the ONP, on the sidelines of a meeting in Maputo, which brought together teachers to discuss the problems of fitting the TSU.

As well as the cuts in some allowances, the Mozambican teachers warned that teachers with N1 titles had moved down in category, as a result of the new criteria imposed by the TSU, and consequently saw their net salaries reduced.

On the other hand, the salary disparity between members of the management of educational institutions and teachers is considered a problem, with records of cases in which the difference in salary between a director and a teacher amounts to 50 thousand meticais, regardless of their working time.

Although there is discontent, the secretary-general of the ONP defends a permanent dialogue with the Government, calling on teachers to put their complaints through the means defined by the authorities and avoid threats of paralysis, as the doctors’ class has done, who also complain about irregularities in the TSU framework.

“Our motto is always dialogue,” stressed Teodoro Muidumbe.

The Ministry of Education and Human Development also reiterates the importance of dialogue to overcome the problems, stressing that the Government is seeking mechanisms to resolve the issues.

“We appeal for calm and we want to believe that the teachers will not go on strike,” stressed Lina Portugal, director of Human Resources at the Ministry of Education and Human Development, who attended the ONP meeting.

Groups of teachers threatened, individually, and before the pronouncement of the ONP, to paralyse classes and boycott the exams of the academic year about to end, in contestation to the TSU.

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The protests by the National Organisation of Teachers come on a day when the Mozambican Executive was asked by Parliament to discuss, as a matter of urgency, the “risks of paralysing the civil service,” in a context of strong opposition to the new Single Salary Scale.

The Mozambican Medical Association rescheduled for 5 December the national strike that was scheduled for Monday 7 November, after some negotiation advances, but still awaiting a response to several claims.

The Mozambican Association of Judges (AMJ) also threatened on Monday 7 November to challenge the new remuneration matrix, considering that the instrument “calls into question the constitutional status of judges.

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