SANDF have got their bosses listening!!!!
I'm sure that many citizens are apalled by the recent strike by members of the SANDF. I too feel that it doesn't paint a good picture about the happenings in S.A. However, I would like to use this oppurtunity to discuss our very own desperate and frustrating circumstances. Mandla and Albina started the ball rolling and I feel that I need to add in my perspective to the current situation.
I feel that as teachers we don't have the respect of our bosses. We don't have the neccesary instruments to make them listen.(Chalk is not doing the trick.) I've mentioned before that healthworkers can close hospitals, Traffic Officers can close down Highways. We can close the schools, but what good does that do us. The only grunts we get come from parents who don't want children messing the house and being a nuisance to them. When we return from striking we sit with more loads of paperwork to contend with and our miserly pay gets docked (Aina!!).
Our efforts are so pathetic that a salary increase that should have been completed by the 1 July 2009 is still being negotiated on the 1st September 2009. What can we do ??? We are being taken for MOEGOES !!!
It's just not fair.Please comment I look forward to hearing from You.
When you get into the loo to do your number 2, it initially is prickly to the nose and moments later you acclimatise; that is the uncomfortable cocoon that as educators we have grown accustomed and contend with. Sugar coated invitations and access to plastic finance (credit & credit cards) left us choking and suffocating in debt, thus instilling anxiety of any attempt to dock or deduct any penny from the meagre salary that we so eagerly and disappointingly anticipate.
ReplyDeleteWe can continue to be held ransom at the expense of our livelihood, and yet be expected to miraulously in Grade 12 to turn an "H" learner into an "A+" achiever. Let's do away with this unions and establish Educators' Forum where Educationists will debate issues pertaining to education and ensure adequate financial emancipation of educators.
Let us like all other sectors you mentioned, die once and close school for sustainable financial liberty... You can also visit my blog http://moavus.blogspot.com to read on how I think better remuneration of educators can impact positively on the ills of our society.
Hi broer'
ReplyDeleteUntil we educators stand up and say no to slave salaries by doing, ie tools down and close schools otherwise we will not get anywhere instead aging quicker than we should.
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