U.D.P. Says Teachers Deserve Better

On the education front, Nelma Mortis, the U.D.P. Standard Bearer for Port Loyola, highlighted the pressing issue of teachers’ welfare. Mortis emphasized that the opposition stands firmly with the nation’s teachers and is committed to improving their conditions once elected.

 

Nelma Mortis, U.D.P. Candidate, Port Loyola

“Our teachers are leaving the profession due to a combination due to an overwhelming number of factors, including workload, lack for support from administration and management, increasing student behavior issues and that is an effect of our social ills, high levels of stress, excessive license requirements, poor working conditions and a feeling of not being valued by the community or parents, which lead to burnouts and a desire to pursue different career goals. Many of them are now moving to call center work. They are on life support. Another area that is defunct in the ministry of education is that of addressing the related issues of salaries, increments and allowances in an efficient manner. A blue bone was thrown at us and I refer to it as a blue bone, because according to the PUP we don’t deserve meat. We were promised that teachers would correct the matter of the increments and outstanding salaries, allowances for teachers. That is a matter of the PUP showing us how good they are at engineering and electioneering. To date six hundred and fifty teachers have not received their two-year increments, salary adjustments or upgrade. While some of these occurrences are beyond the control of GOB, there are some things that could have been done to soften the rough times. This UDP is standing in solidarity with the BNTU as they agree to have a protest on February seventh, 2025.”