Your 20% COLA request unreasonable - Africa Education Watch to Teacher Unions
The Education Think Tank says despite the fact that the interest is authentic considering what is happening, the instructors should meet the public authority midway.
"What expansion is meaning for food and merchandise I accept the 20% without a doubt is real however assuming you take a gander at it the circumstance that the public authority ends up to the degree of going to the IMF for a bailout. They (instructors) should be vigilant with what we likewise need from the public authority.
"I imply that the 20% Cost of Living Allowance that they are requesting for the public authority will most likely be unable to meet that. Accordingly, they need to meet the public authority mostly," the Policy Analyst with the Africa Education Watch, Divine Kpe told Starr News.
He proceeded "We don't need what is happening by which this strike will cause understudies to be at home as seen during the Coronavirus time. We would rather not see understudies sitting home any more given the way that during COVID-19 school conclusion has removed a great deal of understudy learning time."
Instructor Unions protesting
Four educator associations on Monday, July 4, 2022, pronounced a strike popular of installment of 20% Cost of Living Allowance.
It comes after NAGRAT demonstrated their choice to start strike in the event that the public authority doesn't follow up on their interest for Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) by end of June 2022.
In the mean time, the Minority in Parliament has asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to shut down all open fundamental schools assuming that the public authority neglects to address worries of striking educators in three days or less.
Addressing writers in Parliament Deputy Ranking Member for Committee on Education, Dr. Lenient Apaak charged the public authority to address the worries of the educators right away.
"As we talk today near 7,000,000 understudies from kindergarten through grade school to middle school and optional schools are presently not profiting from instructing and learning. Obviously, this is the consequence of the public authority's powerlessness to meet its commitment and be proactive in tending to the necessities and requests of trade guilds including the educators.
"We have seen a round from the Ghana Education Service guiding directors of schools to assume command over the security and security of understudies. Obviously, that can't be sufficient in the event that you consider that a solitary head educator can't be careful and secure the wellbeing of a whole school," Builsa South MP uncovered.
"So we need to encourage the public authority to address the worries of instructors right away. So they can return to the study halls right away. Assuming this happens inside a few days it will be fitting for the GES to coordinate that the schools are shut down for the wellbeing and security of the understudies."
The Deputy Ranking Member further expressed that in spite of the call by the Minority side, it is occupant on the public authority to address the requirements of the educators.
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