Thousands of teacher in New Zealand are in strike to teach due to their salaries arrears

News24xx.com - About 30 thousand primary school teachers in New Zealand began a national teaching strike for a week. This is a form of protest because demands for the payment of their arrears in salaries and working conditions that they have been fought for three months to the government are in deadlocked.

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Reported by Reuters on Monday, November 12th 2018, a demonstration was held in the capital city of Auckland. As a result of the action thousands of students did not attend school.

The people also complained that their workload was getting harder by having to work on a number of assessment documents. In addition, the number of classes and students is increasing but not comparable to the standard of teachers. "The main problem is that the workload is not worth the wages. The teachers have been holding this back for a long time" said a head of Newton Central school, RikiTeteina.

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the new government could pay NZD 129 million, from demands of NZD 698 million. "I hope the teachers want to consider our offer. We have given all the choices. We hope they see that the government works hard to listen to all of their demands" Ardern said.

The New Zealand Educational Institution (NZEI) indeed stated that it would consider Ardern's offer. However, they prefer to hold a strike teaching in hundreds of schools. Education Minister Chris Hipkins said he was disappointed with the NZEI decision because he chose to do strike. "I'm disappointed NZEI chose to go on strike before asking their members about the government's proposal to fulfill their demands" Hipkins said in a press statement.

 

 

 

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