The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is warning that regardless of which party forms the Government after Thursday’s general election, it will be resolute in its stance not to accept any wage offer that will further marginalise the nation’s teachers.
Jasford Gabriel, the newly installed JTA president, says that the last wage offer of 16 per cent, which was accepted by teachers, was not worth it because the average rate of inflation has been trending at 4.5 per cent since 2017.
According to Gabriel, trained graduates at the beginning of the scale, as of April 1, 2020, would have received less than $5,500 as their net increase in salary.
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