The Collective of Teachers’ Organizations of Cameroon (C.O.R.E.C) sends a letter to the sovereign pontiff to denounce the poor working and remuneration conditions.
Private school teachers, through the voice of the C.O.R.E.C secretary general, raise their voice against the Catholic Church in Cameroon in a correspondence addressed to Pope Leo XIV. They denounce “the exploitation of workers” by the Church, a “slavery” they have been victims of since independence and which the Church tolerates. According to them, this exploitation is based on a legal void and is illustrated by wages at a low level, bordering on shame and contempt.
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C.O.R.E.C is outraged by the “original sin of the system” linked to the fact that more than 60 years after Cameroon’s independence, working and remuneration conditions are not defined and set by a collective agreement. The legal void surrounding this situation guarantees an unflattering condition for private school teachers working in educational institutions.
Still according to the collective, in these institutions, “a teacher starts their career with a humiliating sum of 23,080 FCFA per month.” At the higher level where the intellectual elite of the nation works, for “a teacher holding a PhD doctorate, the absolute and unsurpassable ceiling at the very end of their career peaks at 141,870 FCFA francs.” Furthermore, “part-time teachers are thrown out on the street without pay during holidays,” writes the collective’s secretary general, Roland Assoack Etog.
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Thus, the collective turns to the highest personality of the Catholic Church in the world to ask him to force, through his moral authority, the signing of the collective agreement.
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