After declaring national mourning, the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) announced the stoppage of teaching next Monday in Greater Santo Domingo and to march dressed in black to the Ministry of Education in protest at the seizure of teachers’ accounts.
“We are calling at 10 in the morning all the teachers of regional 15 and 10 to the Ministry of Education dressed in black and the rest of the country must go dressed in black as a sign of protest to their workplaces to comply with the calendar school,” he said.
Eduardo Hidalgo, president of the ADP, assured that the mobilizations will extend to the entire country after the elections conclude this coming 9th of the current month.
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He denounced at the national and international level “this action of the government, the teachers interpret it as an attack on freedom of association in the Dominican Republic.”
“He reiterated to the teachers that the elections scheduled for this Wednesday, October 9, will be held and the most forceful response is to turn out massively, enthusiastically and determinedly to vote and thus strengthen our glorious ADP,” he said.
He called on the national teaching profession to remain firm and united around the Dominican Association of Teachers, which will remain firm and strengthened in the face of this government nonsense.
He said that month after month, Minister Ángel Hernández considered the end of the Government that stopped deducting the ADP quota from thousands of teachers via the Minerd payroll.
He reproached the massive cancellations of teachers in various educational centers in the public sector, the lack of dialogue on the part of government authorities, and three days before elections they will seize the union’s account.
“This draws our attention strongly that the Government wants to attack the ADP and there is a policy with high officials, legislators, mayors who are putting pressure on the teachers, including the members of the gangs who are forcing them to resign,” he assured.
He added “it seems that the Government has no numbers and has decided to boycott the union elections; “The teachers en masse will vote this coming October 9.”
He pointed out “the teachers will say no at the polls to this government plan that seeks to weaken the only union we have left in the Dominican Republic; “We make a strong call to the teaching profession to remain united against the Government’s intentions.”
He stressed that the teachers will defeat at the polls the “unhealthy and macabre” plans of the Government that seek to divide the union members to take control of the ADP.
Barahona
The president of the ADP, Eduardo Hidalgo, attributed the indefinite stoppage of teaching in Barahona to a decision by the Teaching Assembly, as a measure to stop the cancellations of teachers.
“What is happening in Barahona is the only person responsible in Barahona today, the only person responsible is Ángel Hernández, Minister of Education,” said the educator.
He invited Hernández to appear in “La Perla del Sur” to resolve the conflict by replacing those disengaged and committing to the ADP affiliates to find a solution to the problems faced by educational centers in that area.
Embargo
The Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP) denounced this Friday that regional 01 of the Ministry of Education (Minerd) in Barahona seized its bank accounts, a situation that “endangers” the holding of the union’s elections next Wednesday, October 9.
In a statement, the National Executive Committee of the ADP described this action as “reckless and undemocratic” and that it aims to “stop the union’s elections just five days before the vote, just when the assembly is underway.”
“An embargo on the accounts of the ADP in the middle of an electoral process has anti-democratic purposes and is a clear attack against freedom of association,” declared the National Executive Committee of the ADP.
Through an act of the sheriff, dated this Friday, the ADP was subject to a withholding seizure of all its accounts in the Reserve Bank, carried out by Regional 01 of Barahona, of the Ministry of Education, shortly after the union announced the paralysis of teaching in the area in demand of the replacement of canceled teachers.
