YESTERDAY’S MARCH by teachers was not a strike, stressed general secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU), Toni Moore.
It was simply a message to the powers that be, telling them to take note, she declared.
Moore was speaking to teachers who had gathered outside the Personnel Administrative Division (PAD), on Collymore Rock, St Michael, yesterday.
Sporting red shirts, they carried placards with slogans like SBA – Slavery Back Again; Teachers Don’t Work For CXC, Disrespect And Abuse Must Stop and CXC You Are Not Our Employer . . . You Cannot Run Our schools. Singing their version of Red Plastic Bag’s Something Happening, turning it to ‘Teachers Marching’, the 200 or so who turned out walked from Queen’s Park along Fairchild Street and River Road, and then onto Collymore Rock. They then gathered in the shadow of the office whose officials Redman accused of treating unfairly those teachers who had been interdicted and then found not guilty. (HLE)
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