Togo: 137 teachers on strike have been excluded by the government
Thursday, 31 March 2022 16:41 
(Togo First) - One hundred and thirty-seven (137) teachers were excluded this Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from the framework of civil servants in education by the Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Dialogue, Gilbert Bawara (photo), who signed a decree in this regard.
The excluded teachers are now available to the general administration, said the government member who, on his Twitter account, said that it is "mainly, agents who have repeatedly acted against the requirements of teachers, stubbornly creating and maintaining tensions and disturbances, in the education sector, which is crucial to national life.”
The teachers in question went on strike as instructed by the Togo Teachers' Union (SET), even though this group has no legal existence, according to the Togolese authorities. They noted that per the Labor Code and the provisions of the decree of February 23, 2022, on the representativeness of professional unions and the exercise of the right to strike in Togo, the notice initiated by the SET "is null and void.”
Regardless, the SET confronted the government, maintaining its March 24 and 25 strike, extended from March 29 to 31, 2022.
As a reminder, since February of this year, the provisions relating to the exercise of the right to strike in Togo have been updated and now require professional unions to be representative. Similarly, the Togolese authorities and the teachers' unions signed a memorandum of understanding on March 10 that obliges a truce on strike action for five years.
Esaïe Edoh
