Trade unions are demanding pay rises, housing, generalization of the chalk bonus (teachers who give lessons in class) and remote allowances. More than 2,000 teachers and teachers responded to their unions’ call to make their voices heard on the day the government held its weekly Council of Ministers meeting.
The gathering of professors a few hundred meters from the presidential palace came on the third day of a strike that began on Monday to demand a pay rise. In the crowd, this union leader, a member of the Coordination for the Defense of Teachers’ Rights, deplores the low salary level for high school teachers: “Today, a teacher receives about 10,000 ouguiyas, about 300 euros, between 200 and 300 euros. Euro. It is unworthy of a high school education. ”
Specific suggestions
Teachers made specific proposals to the government, as explained by Sidaty Mohamed Dicko, Secretary General of the Alliance of Professors of Mauritania (APM): “The standard of living that would allow a teacher and a professor to live decently could not be less than $ 1200. [1000 euros]. ”
According to the Ministry of Education, the salary increase is not within their competence. El Kory Brahim Sneiba, adviser and head of communications at the ministry, says they have mobilized € 33 million this year to support teachers: “National Education has released more than 14 billion ouguiyas that have been used to increase all grants.”
