THE Island’s 800 teachers have agreed a pay deal with the States, leaving nurses as the only public sector group yet to settle.
However, teaching representatives have expressed concern with the offer and the way in which it has been settled. The deal is the same offered to manual workers and civil servants - 2.5% for 2006-7 and the cost of living for 2007-8. However, the Teachers’ Panel - made up of representatives of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers - have still described the deal as not acceptable. In a statement, the secretaries of the three associations said they are ‘concerned that the offer that has been accepted does not go far enough to eliminate the below- inflation increases that had been accepted in recent years’. ‘Furthermore they are concerned with the manner in which negotiations take place when fixed limits had already been set.’
Article posted on 11th May, 2007 - 12.00am
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