Four educator associations have pronounced an endless cross country strike - viable Monday, July 4 - over requests for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
The associations, including the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) was formed out of dissection with GNAT dealings on issues concerning graduate teachers in Ghana., the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT), are requesting that the 20% of their essential compensation be paid to them. They have put their modern activity on government's inability to pay the COLA, which they contend might have assisted with relieving the effect of the increasing cost for many everyday items.
Yet, after a June 30 cutoff time was depleted, the laborers have removed their administrations, both in and outside the study hall. Talking at a joint public interview on Monday, the General Secretary of the GNAT, Thomas Musah, expressed that every one of their approaches government for proper activity have failed to receive any notice.
"We can never again bear the difficulty. Considerably more thus, we reject the imbalance of compensations in the public administrations of this country. We have been constrained under the ongoing conditions to openly convey to Ghanaians on our aim to take to the streets, having gone past the June 30, 2022 cutoff time [that] we gave government for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance.
"Therefore, we have chosen to leave on a strike activity compelling today, Monday, July 4, 2022. By this, we are illuminating the overall population that we are pulling out the entirety of our administrations in all the pre-tertiary training space - this incorporates educating and non-showing staff," he reported. In the mean time, the Employment and Labor Relations Ministry says it has welcomed the initiative of the educator associations to a gathering over their requests.
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