Dakar, Jan 31 (APS) – The G7, a coalition of teachers’, inspectors’ and contract teachers’ unions, warned the government and public opinion on Monday once morest “the disastrous consequences” that might lead to the non-application of the agreements signed in 2014 with the teachers.
During a press briefing held in Dakar, Alcantara Sarr, its spokesperson, reported on “some shortcomings noted in the implementation and the expected results” of the agreements concluded with the government.
The “failure to take into account points relating to liabilities on the memorandums of understanding” between the government and the G7 is one of the other grievances raised by Mr. Sarr, secretary general of the Union of Education Inspectors (HERS).
He also pointed out, among the shortcomings noted by the teachers, “the absence of reliable information on the management of the social contributions of the emerging bodies by the Pension Provident Institution of Senegal and the Social Security Fund in the process of ‘registration of contract teachers and contract teachers’.
Alcantara Sarr lamented “the slow pace of onboarding, validation and advancement reminders”.
The G7 also castigates ”the unexplained delay in the publication of definitive admission orders to CAP and CEAP for quite some time and the lack of transparency of the agreement with the association of banks and the government, within the framework of the outsourcing of DMC” loans, granted for the housing of teachers.
The G7 also denounced the State’s failure to respect the principle of “restoring fairness in the remuneration system by granting new allowances or raising the level of those [qui existent] for certain public administration bodies.
By presenting these shortcomings, explained Alcantara Sarr, the G7 wants to call public opinion and partners to witness, and challenge the Head of State, ”guarantor of the memorandums of understanding with the teachers’ unions, on the need to resolutely commit to their materialization, in order to meet the high expectations of the people and the workers”.
The grouping of unions of teachers, inspectors and contract teachers also says they are working on “an appeasement of the school space”.
The G7 remains faithful to its “principles of responsibility, firmness and consistency”, maintains its spokesperson.
The trade union federation intends to ”continue sectoral thematic meetings as part of monitoring, for rigorous monitoring of points of agreement and a sharing meeting with the member unions of the G20”.
The Secretary General of the Union of Free Teachers of Senegal (SELS/Authentique), Abdou Faty, explains that it is a question of moving towards the harmonization of positions with the G20 and all the teachers’ unions.
”We are going to discuss with the G20 this followingnoon to have the same argument”, said Mr. Faty.
The G7 also expressed its solidarity with the graduates of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Education and Training and the regional training centers for education personnel.
They ”remained for months without receiving [leur] salary”.
The G7, created on May 1, 2019, brings together the Autonomous Union of Middle-Secondary Teachers, the Unitary Framework of Middle-Secondary Education Unions, the Union of Free Teachers of Senegal, the Democratic Union of Teachers, the Sels / Authentic, the National Union of Arabic Language Teachers and SIENS.
