Uganda government stops threats, calls for talks to end arts teachers' strike
A teacher briefs pupils of Mpigi UMEA PS on June 21, 2022 after Unatu officials and the school management agreed to close the school in an on-going nationwide teachers' strike. PHOTO | BRIAN A. KESIIME | NMG
Just days after threatening to sack all arts teachers involved in the industrial action, the Uganda government has backed down and invited the leaders of the tutors’ union for negotiations to end the ongoing strike that has paralysed learning in public schools for two weeks now.
More than 100,000 arts teachers downed their tools on June 15 over what the Uganda National Teachers Union (Unatu) called a discriminatory salary raise.
