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Fiji Teachers Union demand a 30% pay rise despite changes gazetted for salaries and benefits for MPs

Fiji Teachers Union demand a 30% pay rise despite changes gazetted for salaries and benefits for MPs

By Iliana Biutu
01/06/2024
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The Fiji Teachers Union is demanding a 30 percent pay rise for all its teachers despite changes gazetted to salaries, allowances, and benefits for the President, Speaker, Leader of Opposition and members of Cabinet and Parliament.

FTU General Secretary, Muniappa Goundar says if the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka confirms due processes for changes to salaries, allowances and benefits for the parliamentarians, it shows that the government has money to pay them.

Goundar says the Teachers Union's concern is its members be given a pay rise of 30 percent.

He says the Teachers Union stands by the fact that they need 30 percent and nothing else.

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