Namibia: To Strike or Not - Teachers to Vote Next Week

23 August 2016

Windhoek — Hundreds of teachers affiliated to the Namibian National Teachers' Union (Nantu) will next week vote on a motion to go on strike or not. This will include all teachers, heads of department, school principals and inspectors of education.

This follows lack of consensus between government and Nantu yesterday regarding marathon salary negotiations. The conciliator then issued a certificate of unresolved dispute. Yesterday, the Nantu leadership briefed a fully-packed boardroom of hundreds of teachers who converged from all corners of the country to hear the outcome of the negotiations.

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