Tunisia – My Press
Thousands of teachers went through my stageEducationAt the beginning of this week, middle and secondary schools in Tunisia went on a national strike for one day, in protest against the non-implementation of a previous agreement with the Ministry of Education stipulating an increase in wages, according to identical data.
According to what Mohamed Al-Safi, Secretary General of the General University of Secondary Education affiliated with the Tunisian General Labor Union, said in a statement to Anadolu Agency, the percentage of participation in the strike reached more than 60 percent, and it is likely that it will increase with the succession of data from various quarters.
This move comes, according to the same source, in light of what he described as a “blockage of dialogue” with the guardian authorities, especially the Ministries of Education, Youth, and Sports, and the non-activation of the May 23, 2023 agreement, which stipulates an increase of 100 dinars for the benefit of teachers, which was supposed to be implemented starting last January.
The preparatory and secondary education sector in Tunisia includes about 1.1 million students distributed among 1,568 educational institutions, supervised by approximately 68.9 thousand teachers, according to official statistics.
At a time when there was no immediate official comment fromTunisian Ministry of EducationMedia reports had previously indicated that the wage increase file was still under investigation Study.It is noteworthy that the union had carried out a series of regional strikes during the month of February, including the northern, central and southern regions, in the context of an escalation of protest to demand the activation of the signed agreements.
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