Teachers apologise
Kindergarten teachers apologise for any inconvenience to parents and children because of industrial action on Monday, says an executive member of the Kindergarten Teachers’ Association, Ms Sheila Fenton. Kindergartens would be closed during the morning while teachers held stopwork meetings to discuss
delays in the progress of a salary claim lodged on July 4. This was the first big salary claim that kindergarten teachers had lodged in 10 years. They had lost 8 per cent relativity with primary teachers since 1974, Ms Fenton said. The claim was important because there was a shortage of
kindergarten teachers and more encouragement was needed to keep teachers in the service.
The claim was urgent, she said. Further delays from a Government that talked of a unified salary scale for teachers were intolerable. Early childhood education was supposed to be its priority in education.
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