Baguio 2010 Teachers’ Month Campaign and World Teachers Day: “My Teacher, My Hero” Brief History and Background The celebration of World Teachers’ Day started on October 5, 1994. Since then, this has been celebrated annually across the globe. This event took off from the UNESCO / ILO (International Labor Organization) “Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers” adopted by the Intergovernmental Conference on October 5, 1966. This Recommendation, for the first time ever, gave teachers, throughout the world, an instrument that defined their responsibilities and asserted their rights. On October 5, 1994, UNESCO inaugurated World Teachers’ Day. World Teacher’s day aims to mobilize support for the teachers across the world and ensure that the needs of future generations are efficiently met by them. The day seeks to acknowledge the dedication and commitment of the teachers of the world towards their profession. Teachers’ Month Campaign in the Country Teachers’ Month Campaign in the country started in 2008 through the participation of key business, academic institutions and private organizations on education. The aim is to contribute to the development of the teaching profession in the country. The 2010 Teachers’ Month Campaign and the World Teachers Day are consistent with this objective. Baguio 2010 Teachers’ Month Campaign and World Teachers’ Day Concept, Objectives To celebrate the spirit of the World Teachers’ Day and consistent with the Deped Memorandum No. 352 s. 2010, Baguio City teachers through BCSTEA and in coordination with ASSERT will join the global commemoration of the Intergovernmental Conference Resolution in 1966. Baguio 2010 Teachers’ Month Campaign and World Teachers’ Day is a month-long celebration to honor and acknowledge the contributions of untiring teachers as they perform their strategic social roles in shaping Philippine society. Likewise, the Campaign would tackle current issues and concerns that are obstacles in the full development of the teaching profession, of teachers themselves, and of the society that they should help build. The Campaign would focus on building awareness among teachers and education workers about their rights as they enjoin schools and academic institutions, PTAs, student organizations and the rest of Baguio communities in making teachers’ rights a public concern. Target Activities and Schedules The one – month celebration would kick off on September 3 through a press conference of Baguio teacher – leaders. The press conference would announce the one-month campaign and the teacher – leaders’ commitment in improving the plight of teachers as a necessary step in positively contributing to the full development of society. The masses of teachers belonging to the rank and file would dramatize participation in the campaign by “wearing ribbons of teachers’ rights” as insured in the Magna Carta for teachers. This hopes to contribute in the teachers’ awareness of these rights and in demanding for its full implementation. After the kick – off, each faculty association is encouraged to come up with school level activity/ies celebration. There will also be streamer hanging in the schools. The streamers will contain the theme of the campaign and the main/major content of the Magna Carta. The culmination and highlight of the Campaign will be the World Teachers’ Day celebration on October 5. (Please choose from the list below for the culmination activity):
Machinery The whole Campaign will be supervised and spearheaded by BCSTEA in coordination with ASSERT. Assert could assist in the seminars/forums about the identified issues/topics. Faculty associations and other school level organizations would take care of school level activities. Prepared for BCSTEA Discussion August 28, 2010 / Assert ldg/gubz
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RESOLUTION APPEALING TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO REJECT JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 24 GIVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT EXTRA LEGISLATIVE AND QUASI-JUDICIAL POWERS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPENSATION AND POSITION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IN THE GOVERNMENT FOR BEING AGAINST THE INTEREST OF OUR 1.2 MILLION GOVERNMENT WORKERS AND TEACHERS
Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24 sponsored by House Speaker Prospero Nograles of Davao City and providing for a four-year 8 percent yearly increase in the monthly pay of rank-and-file government workers was filed in contention with House Bills 4734 and 5213 proposing, on the other hand, a Php 3,000 yearly salary increase for public school teachers in three years starting 2009;
Whereas, said joint resolution has been introduced to be the third in a series of government moves (R.A. 6758 in 1989 and Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994) to standardize the pay and position classification system in the public sector including those in government-owned and-controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs);
Whereas, the ambiguous wordings and phraseology of the first two salary laws and their confiscatory interpretative implementation by the DBM have been the source of protracted court battles, disappointments and demoralization of many government workers as they failed to deliver the promised relief that said laws envisioned;
Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 24, in its present form and substance, aims not only to peg government workers and teachers’ pay at below poverty levels, reduce and eventually abolish existing hard-won benefits, legalize contractualization, job insecurities and precarious conditions of work but also to leave, but this time, everything to Malacañang and DBM to implement, interpret, and decide all controversies arising from the resolution’s ambiguous provisions, including the authority to amend and modify existing general and special laws;
Whereas, such delegation of extra-legislative power to the President and DBM by our lawmakers who are constitutionally mandated to exclusively exercise such power will not only violate the principle of separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution but will also be tantamount to an abandonment of their sworn duties and serious betrayal of those who elected them to office;
Whereas, a similar delegation by way of Joint Senate-House Resolution No. 1 in 1994, though did not yet include the power to amend or modify existing laws, still has enabled a scheming DBM to under-implement at will what would have been a 4-year salary increase in 4 equal tranches into a 4-year pay hike in 5 unequal tranches – a clever move that has robbed all public school teachers of significant sums in this wise;
SALARY INCREASE OF PHP 5 503(PHP (8 605 – PHP 3 102) DISTRIBUTED IN 4 EQUAL TRANCHES PER JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1
of 1994
HOW DBM IMPLEMENTED THE 4-YEAR SALARY INCREASE UNDER THE JOINT SENATE-HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1 of 1994
Yearly Increase Paid Monthly
Differential x No. of Months
Subtotals
1994 January ro December PHP 1 376
PHP 800
(576) x 13
PHP 7 488
1995 January to December PHP 1 376
PHP 1 000
(376 + 576) x 13
PHP 12 376
1996 January to December PHP 1 376
PHP 1 111
(265 + 952) x 13
PHP 15 821
1997 January to December PHP 1 376
(Jan-Oct) PHP 1 296
(Nov-Dec ‘99) PHP 1 296
296 + 1217
X 11
PHP 14 256
TOTAL AMOUNT SHORTCHANGED
PHP 49 941
Whereas, there is an urgent need to consolidate House Bill Nos. 4734, 4380 and 5213 to reciprocate the multi-partisan efforts at the Senate which made possible the early approval of Consolidated Senate Bill 2408 in July of 2008;
Foregoing premises considered, BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED to appeal to all members of the House of Representatives to reject Joint Resolution No. 24 for being against the interest of our 1.2 million government workers and teachers
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED to reproduce copies of this Resolution for distribution to all public schools for their teachers’ support signatures and presentation to in lobbying with their elected congressional representatives for the latter’s commitment and support.
Done this ninetenth day of February 2009 during the Consultative Meeting of ASSERT- NCR with other teachers organizations at the Expo Centro, Araneta Center Cubao, Quezon City
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(Please submit a photocopy of this duly accomplished resolution personally or by express mail to ASSERT’s National Office at the stated address for file and monitoring purposes)