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(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.
(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
After waiting for weeks for an incentive that would help ease her family’s financial burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, she received a lower amount compared to what was announced by the President and what her fellow employees in other agencies have received.
“Bakit P6,000 lang? Nakaka-dismaya talaga (Why P6,000 only? We are dismayed),” the elementary public school teacher, who requested for anonymity, asked. “May pinaglalaanan sana ako pero mas mababa ang natanggap namin (I’m saving it for a specific purpose but we received lower than what we expected),” added.
Teacher Rose was referring to the Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) which was announced by President Duterte. In December, he signed Administrative Order No. 37 for the payment of SRI to government employees for the year 2020 wherein government employees – including those of DepEd – are expected to receive an amount not exceeding P10,000 as SRI which shall b
ACT Secretary General Raymond Basilio
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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