Contact Teacher Programme instituted and annual seminars began
Milestone Date
Contact Teacher Programme instituted and annual seminars began
Won bargaining rights to negotiate teachers’ salaries and fringe benefits
Study leave facility (6 months with full pay and 6 months no pay instituted in the 1966 post-Independence Code of Regulations)
Unification of 5 teachers’ unions/associations [Jamaica Union of Teachers, (JUT); Association of Headmasters and Headmistresses, (H2H2); Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI); the Association of Teacher Training staffs (ATTS); and the Association of Assistant Masters and Mistresses (A2M2)] to form the Jamaica Teachers’ Association.