*PRESS RELEASE
1st June ,2018.
FROM:Task force
I write with a heavy heart to commend all teachers in the country for their impeccable services to national development even though with perpetual hardship. Furthermore, for the love of our profession and the Gambia at large, the task force urges all its loyal members to patiently continue duties at school untill the third term ends. After several months of consulting authorities for a better living conditions of teachers that yielded disappointment the task force deem it necessary to conditionally call on the attention of the authorities.
Consequently the following points are alarming
- The task force wishes to express dissatisfaction and disappointed from government for increasing allowances (transport) of a section (urban) of professionals of the same profession and not considered the other section ( rural)as wel and there is no plans of even considering the other section by government in this fiscal year. We urge the government to pay the allowance with drawbacks. Portion is segregated.
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The task force resolutions with MOBSE and Gtu has expired and not resolved.
With the above highlights, the task force and the schools commitee are calling on all their loyal members to observe an indefinite sit down strike come **SEPTEMBER*if schools opens first term until the highlighted issues are met by the government and concern authorities then we can go back to the classroom and continue our duty as teachers.
Kind regards.
Cc. GTU
Cc MOBSE
Cc all schools in the country.
Sign: Babucarr Janko
Chairman (Task force)
