JTA notifies ministry
Published:Monday | October 27, 2008 | 1:19 PM
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is today expected to write to the ministry of finance to notify officials of their decision to accept the government’s latest wage offer for public school teachers.
At a meeting on Saturday, JTA delegates voted to accept the salary agreement, which was reached earlier this month with the finance ministry.
Secretary general of the JTA, Adolf Cameron, says he will be dispatching the letter this morning to ensure that a wage agreement can be signed this week.
The new salary scales will take effect in December.
The government will at that time also pay teachers 50 per cent of the retroactive salaries due.
The second tranche of retroactive salaries will be paid next April.
The JTA and government had been engaged in a protracted wage negotiation aimed at bringing the salaries of public school teachers up to 80 per cent of that paid to teachers at private institutions.