Teachers demand P30,000 salary

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Around 5,000 teachers, government employees and health workers marched to Mendiola last October 4 to demand the Duterte regime to uphold its promise to increase their salaries. Led by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), the teachers mounted a “30K” formation to symbolize their unity in their campaign to increase the entry-level salary of teachers to P30,000.

The All Government Employees Unity said that the regime should implement a significant, and not a meager, wage increase. In addition to the P30,000-salary for entry-level teachers, they also demanded to implement a P16,000-national minimum wage for government employees, and P31,000 for college professors.

ACT also lambasted P61-wage increase for teachers in the proposed 2020 national budget. Currently, there are about 800,000 entry-level teachers who receive a monthly salary of P20,754. Teachers complain that on top of their heavy workload, they also shoulder continuously increasing prices of commodities and cuts in the delivery of basic services.

Teachers demand P30,000 salary