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The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has threatened a full-blown strike by teachers after the Government deducted salaries from teachers.

According to various teachers’ unions, the Public Service Commission (PSC) deducted between $11 000 and $17 000 from teachers’ salaries.

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ARTUZ also claimed that the Government hiked salaries for soldiers at a time it was deducting the earnings of teachers who failed to report for duty in February due to financial incapacitation. ARTUZ said:

> [The Government] increased salaries for soldiers but deducted salaries from [teachers]. This provocation will force teachers to go on strike.

> The threats and implementation of no work no pay will not stop a full-blown strike. We have waited for a solution but this Government doesn’t care.

On Monday, the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said other Government employees (presumably soldiers), had been paid $80 000 each while teachers’ salaries were deducted. PTUZ said:

> Teachers have just been deflated by salaries ranging from RTGS$5k-19k four days after other government employees got circa $80k.

> The discrimination is resident evil type… Clearly, education matters very little.

PSC Permanent Secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe confirmed the deductions. He said:

> It is true that Government is serious about the no work no pay principle because it is the only one that is fair to those who show up at work.

> There’s no justice and there is no logic in treating the civil servant who reports for duty the same way you treat the one who does not show up.

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