{"id":4362,"date":"2013-02-06T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2013-02-06T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:11:00","slug":"afc-demands-pay-increase-for-school-cleaners-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"AFC DEMANDS PAY INCREASE FOR SCHOOL CLEANERS NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for Change (AFC) calls on Government to increase the salary of school cleaners to a minimum of $40,000.00 per month from January 1, 2013. Government should not delay payment pending approval of a national minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>AFC recognizes school cleaners as among the lowest paid working poor, almost all of whom are women and single parents.<\/p>\n<p>It is appalling that these cleaners have been receiving just over $15,000.00 (or US$75) per month for a six-hour working day.<\/p>\n<p>AFC was told that since 2003 this salary remained fixed, and did not go up with annual increases in the public sector, even though cleaning is considered a public service employment.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaners disclosed that the monthly salary is based on the number of working hours per month, irrespective of the size of the schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Public Service has issued a circular on the range of activities cleaners must do. These include:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweep floors and clean windows, sills, walls, furniture and offices;<\/li>\n<li>Clean and disinfect toilets and sinks;<\/li>\n<li>Provide lavatories with toilet paper, soap and towel;<\/li>\n<li>Mopping of floor once weekly;<\/li>\n<li>Wash office towels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Ministry circular recognized that the job of cleaners is \u201cunpleasant\u201d as these workers are exposed to \u201ctoilet stench\u201d, and to dust and dirt.<\/p>\n<p>We demand justice for school cleaners in view of the advocacy by government officials of a $3 million monthly package for past presidents, on the ground that money is not a problem!<\/p>\n<p>Cleaners must make their Broom a Symbol of Justice! [END]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6<sup>th<\/sup> February, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for Change (AFC) calls on Government to increase the salary of school cleaners to a minimum of $40,000.00 per month from January 1, 2013. Government should not delay payment pending approval of a national minimum wage. AFC recognizes school cleaners as among the lowest paid working poor, almost all of whom are women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-18m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}