Tanzania's High Court Rules Teachers' Strike Illegal

The High Court ruled an ongoing teachers’ pay strike illegal for insufficient notice and ordered educators back to work, requiring them to compensate students for missed classes.

Saidi Meck Sadiki, the Dar es Salaam regional commissioner, informed a news conference that 3,715 primary school teachers and 4,332 secondary school teachers did not report for work.

  • Tanzania:   Teachers Given One Week to Defend Strike

    Daily News, 1 August 2012

    STRIKING teachers in Dar es Salaam have been given seven days to explain as to why disclipinary and legal actions should not be taken against them. Read more »

  • Tanzania:   Govt Threatens Striking Teachers

    Daily News, 31 July 2012

    THE government said that it will sternly punish teachers taking part in the strike and destroying public property, as well as threatening those who have refused to join the illegal… Read more »

  • Tanzania:   Striking Is Not a Solution

    Daily News, 1 August 2012

    WE have said it before and we are saying it again that teaching is a noble profession and the ladies and gentlemen in it must be persons of high integrity and dedicated to their… Read more »

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