The go slow by teachers in government schools in Mpulungu and Mbala districts in Northern Province today entered day four with the workers still adamant that they will not resume work until their demands are met.
Investigations carried out in several schools in the two districts revealed that starting on Monday, the workers have been reporting for work but not teaching.
Teachers countrywide are demanding improved conditions of service from government, saying this is necessary due to the high cost of living in the country.
The teachers want government to increase their basic salaries, housing and rural hardship allowances among others.
A visit at several schools in Mpulungu this morning revealed that although the teachers have reported for work, they were only seated in their staff rooms while others were standing under mango trees talking in groups as noise from the pupils reverberated from several classrooms.
At Mbala and Lucheche High schools in Mbala, some teachers were found in their respective staff rooms drinking tea, while others were simply seated chatting away.
Efforts to obtain information on the go slow from education board secretaries in the two districts by press time proved futile.
But a Mpulungu ZNUT member, speaking on condition of anonymity revealed that teachers will resort to a full strike by next Monday, if their demands are not met.
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Elo lwanya kanshi! Nomba what of abana besu? Yangu tata!
Iwe Moze simply tek them 2private schools…..For u 2manage 2blog day in day out u can afford 2tek yo kiddos pa private sku,e.g Nkwazi,LICS,Pinewood,Baobab
go ge teachers till your demands are met. The ministers send their children to private schools. So they cant care about you. Dont teach untill your demands are met. If you go back ala nkesa milopola.
Let teachers’ demands b met b4 they go 4 work! Abana babo bayaku privet so dey rily dn’t gve s**t. Kosenipo bane
Isn’t it strange how quick MMD seems to be in responding to Sata and the Post and tone-deaf when it comes to addressing real national crises? Not a single one of these sycophants has any response, comment or observation on the industrial unrest that is spreading through out the country! Instead of addressing the workers’ concerns, they’re all busy outdoing each other commenting on the PF/UPND “pact”. Their president is off once again on another foreign junket! How can workers believe there is no money when they see you wasting the little there is? This is truly amazing!! And where is the labour movement? Only in Africa!
This president of yours has little or nothing at all to do with all those on a go slow.This is another president who has nothing to do with the development of the country.This tourist president is again on a janket.This simply tells us that,his and ministers dull children are on expensive private school in zambia or outside zambia where they do there education.The looming strike is a sad development for the development of the nation which does not depend upon the children of the president and ministers.In no time,the mismanagement of tax payers money by the president,will be the headlines in the newspapers.
A sad development! makes one wonder wat Mutati meant by development in zambia! I guess its not that the teachers want more, its the discrepancies in the system which are making them resort to stricking! Our economics and social Planers should reread our colonial en european history and learn something!