Lecturers threaten strike

A union leader slammed the new system of recruitment as an unfair labour practice thin. The Department of Teaching Service Management (TSM) recently announced that progressional posts would now be advertised in the press to give other educators at junior and primary schools with Masters' degrees a chance.

TAWU President Allan Keitseng says that if TSM does not withdraw a recent such advert by the beginning of next term, his union will call a strike.  The union says the decision to advertise senior posts is against normal practice, the spirit of parallel progression and the government scheme of service.  "They want to attract primary and secondary school teachers who do not fit in the scheme of service, thereby disadvantaging serving lecturers," Keitseng says.