Vaccinate all non teaching staff, Mogwera

Masego Mogwera PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Masego Mogwera PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

BOPEU President, Masego Mogwera has confirmed meeting Basic Education Minister, Fidelis Molao, together with her counterparts, Manual Workers Union, over concerns about the non inclusion of non teaching staff at schools and institutions of learning in the ongoing vaccination of teachers ahead of resumption of classes.

Mogwera who says her union has already lost over 100 members to covid19 complications, told Mmegi online that the non teaching staff remain at high risk of death as they continue to interact with students.

Mogwera says her union and Manual workers Union pursued the issues since the two liberal Unions have members in all schools and educational institutions, and they are equally vulnerable to Covid 19, adding that the numbers indicate that their members also perish from covid19.

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