Education Minister Andrés Navarro says it is not possible to give public school teachers a general salary increase this year. He said talks have been held with the management of the Dominican Teachers’Association (ADP) and that they have agreed on several needs for the sector, but the government cannot yet meet the requested general salary increase. The teachers union is seeking a 25% wage increase.
Navarro said that the Ministry would be introducing a series of incentives and asked the teachers not to strike for a wage increase.
In an editorial on 6 February 2017, Diario Libre makes the point that public school teachers have seen a tripling of their wages in the past three years.
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7 February 2017
