For five months, kinder teachers labor sans pay

[lhorenzoo]

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CEBU City Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young yesterday called for the resignation of Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro.
He questioned the education department for failing to give some 250 kindergarten teachers in Cebu City their salary for five months.

The problem has been recurring, Young said, since the kindergarten program was implemented by DepEd, yet the agency is not doing anything to address it.
In a news conference he called yesterday, Young said DepEd’s failure to release the teachers’ P6,000 salary from February until June this year indicates Luistro’s mismanagement of the agency.
This prompted Young to question DepEd’s capability to implement the K to 12 program, where two more years were added to basic education and kindergarten was made mandatory.
“Kindergarten teachers not being able to receive their salaries of P6,000 is symptomatic of mismanagement in DepEd and if they can’t manage DepEd properly then they have no business implementing K to 12,” said Young, who heads the council’s committee on education.

The problem on the salaries is just the tip of an iceberg. It shows how DepEd is being managed. They can’t settle even a simple thing,” he said.
The vice mayor, who also focused on education when he was a party-list congressman, said DepEd may have not processed the salary of the teachers because they are busy in implementing the K to 12 program.
“He should resign. He should resign for implementing K to 12 because knows he is fooling the Filipino people and he is going to be responsible for the suffering of the whole Filipino nation,” he said.
While he understands that the longer basic education program is President Benigno Aquino III’s order to DepEd, Young believes that Luistro should instead tell the president the real situation, including the lack of teachers and classrooms.
For the teachers’ salary, Cebu City Schools Division Superintendent Rhea Mar Angtud, when asked for comment, admitted the agency doesn’t have an appropriation for them yet.

She said they still have to get funds from their central office in Manila.
Asked when the teachers can receive their salary, Angtud said it is something that they don’t know yet.
Aside from the salaries, Young also lamented that Luistro has not addressed the problem on the yearly transfer of public school principals.
Changing principals, he said, is a management problem.
Young said he brought up the matter, as well as the problem on salaries, to Luistro in August 2010 when the secretary visited the city, but the matter has not been addressed yet.

For five months, kindergarten teachers labor without pay | Sun.Star


Hala, malooy tawn mo sa pamilya aning mga teachers uy, liman kag 5 ka buwan nga way sweldo? pagka inutil naman aning mga tawo nga gipang appoint sa atong halangdong presidente ani nga posisyon. shape up tawn uy dep ed secretary, swelduhi na tawn nang mga maestra.

[aya_diwata]

gipugos ang k-12 bisan way budget

[balipseyev]

Mao, indot baya ang program sa K to 12, pero ang nakalisod kay wala man tay budget para ana...

[Saint_hard]

dili rani sa mga kindergarten nga teacher nahitabo TS this happen also to almost public teacher, naa koy kaila i dont know kung pila na sya ka months wala ka dawat sa iyang sweldo nga pwerting gamaya raba tawn

[FAQ]

Way budget or mismanagement lang kaha ?

[balipseyev]

Basin gi patubuan pa sa taga DepEd ang sweldo sa mga teachers...

[monroy]

Shit... this is really what pisses me off so much about our good for nothing government. If a private company has minor labor violations, the government is quick to lash out and even shut down the company. But when the government has serious violation of their own labor laws, nothing is done. What a shitty government we have... don't get me started on the labor unions, those hypocritical fat commie F*kers don't even pay their drivers minimum wage. Anyone see how fat those mendozas of ALU are collecting labor union fees from the stupid workers who are too stupid to realize they are being milked like dumb cows by the commie pieces of shit?

[FAQ]

Shit... this is really what pisses me off so much about our good for nothing government. If a private company has minor labor violations, the government is quick to lash out and even shut down the company. But when the government has serious violation of their own labor laws, nothing is done. What a shitty government we have... don't get me started on the labor unions, those hypocritical fat commie F*kers don't even pay their drivers minimum wage. Anyone see how fat those mendozas of ALU are collecting labor union fees from the stupid workers who are too stupid to realize they are being milked like dumb cows by the commie pieces of shit?

Pero vote gihapon mga Pinoy sa mga politicians who are embracing communist ideologies to the likes of Noynoy . Not to mention , mga way ayo candidates maoy botaran like artista by trade . Wa gihapoy padulngan ning atong nasud . In fairness , agree jud ko ning labour unions and kailangan pud e protect ning mga employees through its Collective Bargaining Agreement sa ilahang respective industry . Diri sa North America , through labor unions naka implementa kasagarang businesses ug fair wage , safe workplace , compensation , health benefits , work hours , paid vacations and etc thanks to labour unions .

[monroy]

Pero vote gihapon mga Pinoy sa mga politicians who are embracing communist ideologies to the likes of Noynoy . Not to mention , mga way ayo candidates maoy botaran like artista by trade . Wa gihapoy padulngan ning atong nasud . In fairness , agree jud ko ning labour unions and kailangan pud e protect ning mga employees through its Collective Bargaining Agreement sa ilahang respective industry . Diri sa North America , through labor unions naka implementa kasagarang businesses ug fair wage , safe workplace , compensation , health benefits , work hours , paid vacations and etc thanks to labour unions .

Whether labor unions are good for workers or not I tend to disagree but that's a whole other topic that could go on and on with no resolution. What I'm pointing out though is the sheer hypocrisy of these labor unions. The "fair wage" they demand is far higher than minimum wage or what a business can afford. But then they themselves don't even pay minimum wage to their own workers! Not to mention various violations like contracting, nonpayment of SSS etc. Try to look into the way these unions are run here and it's a real eye opener. The boss of ALU for example has multiple mansions and an expensive fleet of cars but amazingly is too poor to pay his own drivers minimum wage or SSS!

In the meantime in countries that have no unions or oppressive labor laws like Singapore, they are getting rich beyond their dreams. The trick here is who do you trust to set the "fair wage". I trust the market forces, which unlike human beings has no bias or selfish interest... what good is a fair wage if there are no jobs.

Labor union is a misplaced label, they should be called mafias. When the mafia bosses of these unions earn more than most legitimate businessmen then you know things are messed up...

[beyee]

shame on you sir.

#despicable