JTA: Securing the Best for Teachers

In a Christmas Day message to his colleagues, the President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) while commending them for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reassures them that the JTA remains resolute in securing well-deserved compensation. 

Jamaica Teachers’ Association President, Winston Smith says the JTA is still engaged in salary negotiations and conditions of service agreement with the government. He says the JTA has entered into this process fully cognizant of the worth of its teachers and intends to extract from the process the best possible package.

Smith reports that the individual and collective efforts of teachers and support staff over the past months to identify and close opportunity gaps have not gone unnoticed.

He commends the effort to restart face-to-face learning and says the JTA must sound the cautionary note that all measures that will keep teachers, support workers, and students safe must be guaranteed prior to more classes being held in January 2022. 

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