head of the Catholic Education Secretarial, Rev. Sumo Varfee Mulbah, removed before they can return to teach.

At a well-attended meeting held Sunday at the St. Michael Elementary School in Gardnersville, the teachers resolved not to return to classes until their demands are met.

Alphonso Nimely Quire, head of the Association of Catholic School Teachers and Support Staff, said their gathering at the meeting was only to reaffirm their action in order to keep the pressure on the Catholic Education Secretarial.

"Our action remains in full. People have to learn to respect people labor. We are not begging. CES authority needs to know this. We will not surrender until our five months benefits are settled. Moreover, Rev. Sumo Varfee Mulbah needs to step down as head of the Catholic Education Secretarial. This bad labor practice needs to stop now," he pointed out.

Quire said because of the CES head behavior they have lost their respect as parents and teachers in their respective homes.

“We will not go to class under the banner of the association but will report to our respective schools only to sign. We will refrain from entering any class room for the purpose of teaching,” he stressed.

 The Association of Catholic School Teachers and Support Staff go-slow action led to several students of the Catholic Schools staging mass demonstrations last Friday in front of the Catholic Archdiocese Secretarial on Ashmund Street demanding their teachers' five months salary arrears. 

The students told reporters that since the resumption of schools across the country they have not received lessons.

According to the students demonstrating Friday, their protest action was in demand of the five months’ salary arrears owed their teachers by the Catholic Education Secretarial, which prompted teachers’ go-slow action.

On February 3, 2015 the Association of Catholic School Teachers and Support Staff unanimously resolved to go-slow on March 4, 2015 as a way of pressurizing the Educational Secretariat to pay them.

Catholic Education Secretarial head Rev. Sumo Varfee Mulbah admits that the teachers' action was hampering their school system but did not say the way forward.