CORE FUNCTIONS

• To bring together and unite teachers of all grades and qualifications in Zambia and providing a forum for co-operation.
• To fight for improved terms and conditions of service for teachers and protecting teachers interests.
• Promoting programmes aimed at improving teachers' welfare or socio-economic status.
• To offer assistance to individual members in professional as well as legal matters.
• To settle disputes between members of the union or between its members and their employers through collective and constitutional means.
• To co-operate with other societies, bodies, unions or organisations within or outside Zambia with similar objectives.
• To promote matters leading to the improvement of education and the establishment of a common system of education.
• To secure effective representation of the teaching profession on the government, public and private bodies or organisations where such representation may be necessary.