Prospects of an agreement on a salary increase for public school teachers seem to be ever more distant due to the tougher stances being adopted by the government and the Dominican Teachers Association (ADP). In a paid press notice published today, Monday 4 March, the government reiterates that the general increase that will be applied is for 20% and has been in effect since last 1 February. However, ADP president Eduardo Hidalgo said last night, Sunday 3 March, that in the face of the government media onslaught, the national plenary meeting of teachers delegates called for tomorrow, Tuesday 5 March could approve a much larger scale strike and an increase in teachers demonstrations. He described the figures presented by the government outlining the expense involved in a salary increase as “false,” and called on the government to stop spending Ministry of Education funds on these paid announcements in the newspapers.<\/p>\n
The document, paid for by the Ministry of Education, says that the 100% pay increase that the ADP is demanding “is not economically possible or feasible, because it would absorb nearly 50% of the budget increase for Education.” They argued that complying with the teachers’ demands would sacrifice the construction of 10,000 new classrooms and put a halt to the acquisition of new school desks. The government has published full-page ads in newspapers depicting newspaper clippings talking about a lack of sensitivity (on the part of the ADP) to seek a salary increase at the expense of the funds from the 4% of the Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prospects of an agreement on a salary increase for public school teachers seem to be ever more distant due to the tougher stances being adopted by the government and the Dominican Teachers Association (ADP). In a paid press notice published today, Monday 4 March, the government reiterates that the general increase that will be applied … <\/p>\n