Kurdistan teachers need your support!
About
170,000 primary and secondary teachers and university lecturers in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region who work on
permanent basis have stopped work for 75 days over not receiving their salaries, suspension of promotions and casualization of their contracts. The refusal of Kurdistan Regional Government and the Ministry of Education to meet the demands of the teachers, has forced them to protest and hold large demonstrations across Kurdistan cities, which are still ongoing. It is worth mentioning that teachers have no other income source apart of their salaries amid cost of living crisis in Kurdistan. What has forced the teachers to continue to boycott their universities and schools is the failure of the Kurdistan Regional Government to respond to their lawful demands on the grounds that the Kurdistan Regional Government has disagreement with the Central Iraqi government. We, the representatives of Dangi Krekar newspaper -abroad ( Worker’s Voice), we support the teachers of the Iraqi Kurdistan. We also call on trade unions and all international institutions and organizations concerned with workers’ rights to support the teachers in the Iraqi Kurdistan and to exert pressure on the Iraqi embassies and consulates and on representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Authorities to force them to meet the demands of the teachers, which are listed below: 1. Resume the promotion of teachers and other employees of education sector. 2. Offer teachers employed on casual and contract basis permanent contracts. 3. Payment of salaries every month and on time. 4. Stop the meddling of the dominant parties in the affairs and works of government institutions including education system. Please send your letter of protest to the Iraqi Embassy and the offices of the Kurdistan Regional Government: lonemb@iraqmofamail.net prodep@mofa.gov.iq uk@gov.krd Please send a copy of your letters to us on the following email: dangikrekar@yahoo.com Representative of Dangi Krekar(Worker’s Voice) Newspaper-Abroad 9 December 2023 UK:+44 7 720291516 America : + 1(517) 256-6764 Switzerland: + 41 Kurdistan: + 64 7702237250 www.dangikrekar.com Finland: + Canada: + Germany: + 4915143220 dangikrekar@yahoo.com
