The Ministry of public service has called for another meeting with officials of the Uganda National Teachers Union to discuss modalities on salaries.
According to a letter addressed to the teacher’s union dated June 27, 2022, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry has invited four officials from UNATU to their offices for further talks.
This development comes just as teachers have been instructed to either return to class immediately or risk being sacked by close of business today.
The Minister for Local Government, Raphael Magyezi on Monday instructed government officers in districts, to monitor and report back names of teachers who will not attend school on Tuesday June 28, 2022.
Hon Magyezi in his communication states that the government has informed chief administrative officers, district education officers, district inspector of schools, sub-county and parish chiefs to monitor those absent from school.
Magyezi ‘s announcement was delivered on Monday during a meeting between the Minister and local government on the Parish Development Model at Greater Mbarara District .
UNATU announced an industrial action on June 15, 2022 over indiscriminate pay. The teachers held a meeting with both the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni that failed to yield direct results after he instructed the Public Service Ministry to sort out their issue.
Following the presidential directive, the Ministry of Public Service ordered the striking teachers to return to their duty stations by June 24 without fail or be sacked.
The Public Service Ministry Permanent Secretary, Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwiire communicated the decision in her letter to UNATU.
In her letter, Bitarakwate notes that whereas teachers, just like all other government employees, have rights and freedoms to withdraw their labor, the union neither gave the government notice of the strike nor exhausted the dispute settlement mechanisms as required by the public service negotiating, consultative and dispute settlement Machinery Act.
