Teachers' Day Philippines

On World Teachers' Day, teachers renew their push for salary upgrades and better benefits, including the reform of “unfair” policies.

“We do not accept this kind of representation because more than half of GSIS membership comes from DepEd and the bulk of these employees are teachers,” Basas said. This forces some teachers to “be creative and cling on a knife’s edge,” resorting to nonaccredited loan facilities that would take their ATM cards so they could directly withdraw the monthly amortization. Elizaldy Co and signed by 57,209 teachers and education support personnel from public and private schools. But the loan agency could not access their account anymore so this leads to the filing of cases,” Basas said. During their first “consultation meeting” with Duterte held on Aug. We will not [borrow money] if our salaries are enough,” Basas said in a phone interview on Sunday.