Teachers in Côte d’Ivoire have threatened to embark ona three-day strike, with a call by the former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro for the government to prioritise addressing teachers’ grievances.
On 23 September 2024, several trade unions, umbrella organisations and federations of the Ministry of National Education and Literacy, grouped within the MENA Intersyndicale (IS-MENA), gave notice of strike action to the ministry.
This strike notice concerns a 72-hour work stoppage throughout the country from Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 7:30 am (GMT, local time) until Thursday 17 October 2024 at 6:00 pm, in order to demand a satisfactory response to their demands.
The main demands of the trade unions are the granting of an incentive bonus to staff in the education and training sector, and the creation of a school administration sector with the creation of new jobs and a career profile.
In addition, they are demanding the repayment of salaries withheld and suspended from some teachers because of strikes in 2019 and 2020, the upgrading of allowances linked to large-scale examinations and their payment no later than two weeks after the closure of examination secretariats, and the promotion of assistant teachers.
