Philipsburg: --- The Windward Islands Teachers Union (WITU) is informing their members that the periodic increase that was due to be applied to their salaries as of August 1st 2009 has not been applied across the board. The union is presently investigating which school boards have not complied with the New Salary Scale System for Education on St. Maarten.
According to the agreement in the New Salary Scale System, teachers will be evaluated according to guidelines formulated and approved by the Executive Council. As long as these evaluation guidelines are not implemented for teachers, all teachers will receive a periodic increase on August 1st of each school year. So far, we have received confirmation from two school boards that they have applied the necessary changes to their teachers’ salaries. Our complaints were mainly from Public School teachers. WITU will continue to investigate which other school boards are in non-compliance with the New Salary Scale System. WITU is working diligently to speedily resolve this issue.