The Autonomous Union of Middle-Secondary Teachers of Senegal (SAEMS) is preparing to file a strike notice in order to push the government to keep its commitments to teachers. This statement was made on Saturday in Ziguinchor by the national general secretary of the union, El Hadji Malick Youm.
During a tour in Ziguinchor, Mr. Youm insisted on the teachers' determination to continue their struggle: “As soon as we return to Dakar, we are going to file a strike notice to show the government that the fight we had led against the latest regimes, this is the fight that we will continue,” he said.
This announcement comes while the secretary general attended a football tournament between the Djignabo high school and the CEM Tètté Diédhiou, organized by the SAEMS subsection of Ziguinchor. It was an opportunity for him to remind the comrades on site of the many expectations still unmet on the part of the government.
According to him, several urgent questions remain: administrative delays, pending decisions, salary increases, overtaxation, and teacher training. He stressed: “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. »
This national tour aims to mobilize and inform teachers after several unsatisfactory meetings with the government. SAEMS believes that unions have played a crucial role in promoting political change in Senegal, but progress is slow to materialize.
El Hadji Malick Youm also clarified the aim of this mobilization by emphasizing the importance of raising the demands of workers in the face of a change of regime which does not yet meet expectations. He said: “The concern of workers must be the concern of any new regime that takes hold. Which is not yet the case. » The information contained in this article was relayed by the website of our colleagues at Sud Quotidien.
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