Head of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Institute, Danny Roberts, says the current Extended Fund Facility Agreement with the IMF represents an assault on free collective bargaining by local teachers.

Mr. Roberts, who was speaking at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s 50th Annual Conference at the Hilton Rose Hall Hotel and Spa in Montego Bay, St James today, says the JTA must oppose this assault.

Mr. Roberts says only teachers have been specifically singled out by the IMF.

Danny Roberts, Head of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Institute, speaking in St. James earlier today.

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