What about the Nurses’ Pie?

May 23, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Basically, the way I see it is that a teacher teaches for five hours – three in the mornings and two in the afternoons, Monday to Friday. That’s only 25 hours a week. On Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays they don’t have to work. You have the August, Christmas and Easter Holidays that they are at home but still get paid. Their working hours are mainly between 8am to 4pm.
Most teachers live within close proximity of the school they teach or with minimal travelling. Now, teachers are doing a very important job, and I must say I am quite pleased that they’ve gotten a raise in their salary, and recently, duty free concessions for senior teachers.
With all that in the favour of the teachers, they still get the opportunity to keep lessons for a fee (extra money for them) either at the school or at their home. Whenever there’s a need at the school, they would keep meetings and request funds from the parents, or they would plan an activity/event to raise funds to get what is required.
I must say the teachers’ tasks are not that easy, but they still face it, and that is why they should be praised for what they are given.
Editor, having said the above, nurses on the other hand are doing an equally important job, and maybe more stressful, under worse conditions, and for a measly salary.
Nurses’ working hours vary. In other words, they work shifts – some of their shifts have them walking the road either to or from work some late hours in the nights, some after 11pm. They have to work Holidays, Sundays, basically almost every day/night unless their day off falls on one of the Holidays or Sundays.
Some nurses have to use three or four buses to reach their place of work. For the longest while I haven’t heard anything worthy being given to the nurses, which brings me to my big question: what happened to duty free concessions for nurses? They work is more time-consuming, has them being at risk walking all hours to/from work.
What gives? They deserve better treatment.
Sahadeo Bates

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