Teachers’ syndicate: rewards should be based on merit

Abdul-Salam al-Khodairi, Yemeni teacher and syndicalist at Ibb Governorate, called the Ministry of Education and its branches in all the governorates to ease administrative procedures for teachers and to give up the repetitive routine which causes teachers to waste time in corridors of administrative offices instead of being free to perform their educational duty. 

Al-Khodairi warned about wrong administrative practices against teachers, such as random transferring, distinction according to political ideologies, employment exclusion, illegal deductions and intentional depriving from material or moral owned rights.

The teachers’ syndicate at Ibb, in a statement delivered in front of the syndicate subsidiary conference members held last week, confirmed the syndicate’s readiness to actively take part in the educational rescue project in all reliabilities with all concerned people with educational process. 

“The syndicate’s work in our country suffers from marginalization by executive members with the power of comprehensive mentality and with the sole perspective of making chests get narrowness and choke every impartial democratic work, looking upon it as if it were an extraordinary and mutiny against the common situation they are habituated to,” said al-Khodairi. He added that “when they realized the necessity of coping with the world in this aspect, they hurried up to allow constitutional and lawful responses to be issued, thus providing with rights and freedoms to civil society organizations. Those rules are fruitage for efforts of faithful, patriotic figures who had striven for them to be enacted; however, the executive members in the government have been working to empty such actions from their real content according to their personal benefits and their political attachment. When they fail to stop or put down any syndicate or organization, they resort to create a distort shape for it to replace it. Rights are snatched and not bestowed, and he who walks on the right path, must arrive.” 

Al-Khodairi indicated that the struggling for freedoms stabilization obviously means that our country enjoys a space of democratic margin but it is still in a dire need to be fixed and expanded in order to be transformed from a gift circle to a merit circle, avoiding any abuse to national and legislation projects. 

He pointed out that “he who practices despotism and narrows freedoms, is deemed to be an extension of that obsolete culture, whatever and however the practices were painted with forged democracy, injustice and tyranny, rooting the culture of one party, one opinion, and one individual.” 

Al-Khodairi called on the ruling party and his government to open a comprehensive dialogue with all political parties and organizations, syndicates and public organizations, national and social personalities and to deal with complete transparency with various issues at the local and regional level. He also urged to lift party trusteeship from the government’s various systems, and to enable the legislative and executive institutions to perform their constitutional and legislative tasks without personal directives or party influences, so to move the state of institutions from theoretical and formal aspect to real and practical aspects.

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