Teachers’ groups denounced the increase of just P52 a day, saying it “signaled the death” of the substantial amount they have been seeking for years. | MatthewINQ
That amount is well below the P10,000 the President himself had once pledged, and will quickly be eaten up by inflation and the loss of their tax-exempt status, according to the Alliance of Concerned Teachers and the Teachers’ Dignity Coalition .
This pushed the House committee on appropriations to convene its first and last hearing on the SSL on Monday, ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro told the Inquirer. But Castro said it appeared that the appropriations committee chair, Rep. Isidro Ungab, “did not even read or try to understand the nature of these different bills.”The overall increase of just P6,246 for Salary Grade 11 employees, which include teachers, is all the more peculiar given that higher pay for the country’s 900,000 public educators has attracted support from both the President’s allies and opposition lawmakers.
“These lawmakers just followed Malacañang’s marching orders,” said Castro, even though the SSL granted a much lower amount than many of them had proposed in their own measures. “Because it was certified urgent, they complied without defending their bills.”This would be the fifth round of increases in government workers’ pay since the first SSL under President Corazon Aquino.
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