THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION could soon be feeling the full weight of the two teachers’ unions.
Coming out of a joint historic meeting at Solidarity House yesterday morning, which saw the two unions meeting as one for the first time since 2005 over the environmental issues at the now defunct Louis Lynch Secondary School, members of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) and the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) resolved to come together to fight several issues, which they have been dealing with separately for quite some time.
Speaking to members of the media after the more than three-hour meeting, president of the BSTU, Mary Redman, said they would be joining forces on the issues of compensation for correcting School Based Assignments (SBAs), support for the teachers at the Combermere School and the reinstatement of pay for members of the BUT whose salaries were docked for attending two union meetings last year. (YB)
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