ACT Teachers to Participate Massive Walk on Thursday

Public school teachers who are union members said they are preparing themselves to participate a grand walk known as Walk for Teachers’ Salary Increase to be held on Thursday, August 21, 2014.

In an email from Regional President Antonia Maano-Lim of Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Region 7 Union, she said thousands of ACT Union member teachers will gather and hold assembly starting Wednesday at designated areas in four provinces of Central Visayas such as Bohol, Negros Oriental, Siquijor and Cebu.

In Cebu province, ACT member teachers will gather in Cebu City, Tagbilaran City in Bohol, Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental and Siquijor, in Siquijor, Lim said.

Lim also said that all they want is the resolution for the immediate enactment by congress on a law increasing teachers and non-teaching personnel’s monthly salaries through House Bill 245 which was earlier filed by ACT teachers’ Representative Antonio Tinio.

Lim stressed that they have already gathered last Tuesday at the Labangon Elementary School and Labangon Bliss Elementary School, all of barangay Labangon.

Today, they will gather at the Don Vicente Rama Memorial National School in barangay Basak, Cebu City , Don Carlos Gothong Memorial National High School, at barangay San Nicolas, Cebu City, and at Cebu City Science High School in Labangon, Lim added.

Lim explained that this preparation is in line with their scheduled mass walk on August 21 setting their assembly time and likewise the major routes where all ACT members are set to pass.

Just recently, ACT teachers lambasted Secretary Florencipo Abad of the Department of Budget and Management who was vocal on his pronouncement that there is zero allocation for public school teachers’ salary increase in the 2015 national budget.

Lim said the pronouncement hurts them so much and triggered them to fight until for the benefit of all public school teachers and their families.

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