By Editorial,
The Ministry of Public Service has yielded to pressure and requested negotiations with science teacher training tutors who are currently on strike advocating for their reinstatement to Rightful Salary Scales.
In a letter addressed to the Uganda Professional Science Teachers Union, Stephen Opio Okiror, acting on behalf of the Permanent Secretary, acknowledged the government’s willingness to engage in discussions regarding the issue.
However, he emphasized the importance of the teachers calling off the strike before hand.
Since August 2023, numerous science tutors from the 23 core primary teacher colleges have expressed grievances about being removed from the science salary scale without sufficient explanation.
This action has resulted in them not receiving their rightful payments for eight months.
According to the discontented tutors, they have been on the science scale for years, and when the science teachers’ salary was increased in 2021, they also experienced a pay raise from 800,000 to 2.2 million for diploma holders and from 1.2 million shillings to 4.3 million for degree holders respectively. END.