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The Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) has suspended the nation-wide teachers strike which had been on-going since the 3rd term officially began and with majority UPE schools spending over a month without pupils attending classes.
The suspension follows several engagements which with the Ministry of Public Service, Labor, and another engagement with the speaker of parliament Anita Among and the education committee.
“The National Executive Council (NEC) of UNATU and the Branch Chairpersons in a special sitting today, 16th October 2025, have carefully studied the current status of the industrial Action. Having received documented communication from the speaker of parliament on 15th October, 2025 that the matter is being expeditiously handled. It has been resolved that in the meantime the Industrial Action be suspended to allow parliament to handle the matter conclusively”- reads part of the document.
Government stood it’s ground and told the teachers there’s no money and there demands will only be considered in the next financial year which will start July 2027. The teachers demands have however been met with president Museveni dissing the humanities insisting that Uganda doesn’t need arts and poems but only scientists.
The UNATU strike followed an earlier strike by the Secondary teachers who teach arts in secondary schools who broke away from UNATU. These were also convinced to return to classes with promises.
The suspension of the nation-wide strike means teachers will resume classes immediately without any reason. Pupils had missed classes for 32 days including those who will be sitting for primary seven early next month.
This strike had also affected the invigilation of the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) where arts who had also joined the UNATU strike insisted they won’t be invigilating exams and this forced UNEB to opt for private and retired teachers.
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