(screenshot from ACT-NCR Facebook)
To the tune of “Achy Breaky Heart,” several teachers under the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines – NCR Union danced in front of the DepEd NCR in Quezon City to demonstrate the agency’s “broken promises” and unjust policies.
Amid rocketing prices of goods in Metro Manila and with the health and education crisis still unresolved, ACT-NCR urged the agency to “fulfill its duties and provide adequate measures to ensure teachers’ welfare.”
ACT NCR Union also demanded for a dialogue to raise their complaints on the payment of long overdue Performance-based Bonus (PBB) 2019, Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) 2020 benefits and the “troublesome” P300 monthly communication allowance reimbursement.
Citing the struggles of education workers amid the pandemic, a federation of teachers on Wednesday, Feb. 10, reiterated its call for the release of the 2019 Performance Based Bonus (PBB).
ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio
(Facebook / MANILA BULLETIN)
Teacher-leaders of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) delivered a “demand letter” and held a picket-protest at DepEd Central Office in Pasig City to urge the agency to response to the needs of education and stakeholders in Bicol, Southern Tagalog, National Capital Region, Central Luzon and Cagayan which were hardly-hit by typhoons last month.
The group expressed dissatisfaction with the DepEd’s actions regarding the release of teachers’ benefits and denounced the government’s “neglect of teachers’ welfare” due to delayed and long-overdue benefits.
“This government does not run out of ways to burden our teachers,” ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio said in Filipino. “Last year was very sad for our teachers because they had to bear the cost of education despite the pandemic and various calamities, the first month of the new year is coming to an end but the government is still squanderi
Amid steep inflation and mounting teaching expenses, a federation of teachers is asking the Department of Education (DepEd) to “exhaust all ways and means” for the speedy and trouble-free release of delayed communication expense refund and benefits - which education workers have long been anticipati