Indebted teachers seek additional work

While the low rate of increase in teacher salaries further increased pay injustice in the public sector, teacher pay, which was 3.45 times the minimum wage in 2002, fell to 1.88 times the salary. minimum in 2023. CHP Kocaeli MP Muhip Kanko stated that the lowest salary for civil servants would be 22,000 lira, it was increased by 85 percent, and civil servants such as teachers, academics, doctors and engineers remained very low, 90% of them owed money to banks. A third of them do additional work. The teachers’ salary is not enough, they don’t get along,” he said.

Muhip Kanko, CHP Kocaeli MP

ALL IN DEBT

Pointing out that during the AKP rule, teachers were mired in debt and the profession was discredited, Kanko said that teachers became modern slaves. Stating that the purchasing power of teachers declined by 46 percent in 22 years under AKP rule, Kanko continued: “The problems of education workers, whose social and personal rights have been taken away by teacher contracts and practices substitutes, are growing like an avalanche. Since 2002, teachers’ salaries have fallen 46 percent compared to the minimum wage. While our teacher education workers, whose salary is declining compared to the minimum wage, should receive a minimum salary of TL 39,336 under current conditions, a contract teacher who has just started the profession receives a salary of TL 21,000. 500TL. A paid teacher who attends classes 144 hours per month receives a maximum of 8,280 TL at the end of the month.

The tax inspector earns less salary than the tea seller

Muhip Kanko pointed out that the salary issue affects civil servants as well as teachers: “With the latest regulation, workers in public institutions such as cleaners, tea makers and drivers began to receive higher salaries than university graduates. An academic with a doctoral degree at the university is paid less than a cleaning worker, a tax inspector a tea maker, and an engineer is paid less than the worker who works for him, Kanko said that nowhere in the world In the world, a janitor with an elementary school degree can command a higher salary than an academic with a Ph.D.