Ziguinchor, Dec 21 (APS) – The Autonomous Union of Middle-Secondary Teachers of Senegal (Saems) plans to file a strike notice to demand compliance with a few points of the agreement signed by the State with teachers, announced on Saturday in Ziguinchor (south), its national secretary general, El Hadji Malick Youm.
“As soon as we return to Dakar, we will file a strike notice to show the government that the fight we led against the last regimes is this fight that we will continue,” warned the national SG of Saems.
El Hadji Malick Youm was touring Ziguinchor where he attended a football tournament between Djignabo high school and CEM Tètté Diédhiou. A tournament organized by the SAEMS Ziguinchor subsection.
“We took advantage of this tour to remind comrades that there are issues which are extremely important and on which the government is still expected and on which we see a status quo,” lamented Mr. Youm.
According to him, these are “issues relating to administrative delays, decision-makers, salary increases and over-taxation and teacher training”.
El Hadji Malick Youm explained that it was a national mobilization and information tour that they initiated following several meetings they had with the government.
“Teaching unions played a key role in the emergence of a third political change in Senegal. But after several meetings we realized that until now we have not yet been able to obtain answers,” he lamented.
Hence the decision, he underlined, “to begin this tour to exchange with teachers at the grassroots level, to mobilize them because we believe that today we inevitably have the obligation to carry the combat.”
“The concern of workers must be the concern of any new regime that is established. Which is not yet the case,” lamented the national general secretary of Saems.
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