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Akufo-Addo begs educators to get back to study hall
President Akufo-Addo has asked striking educators to get back to the homerooms forthcoming the result of progressing exchanges.
On Monday, every one of the four pre-tertiary instructors' associations pronounced a cross country strike requesting a 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) since high expansion, high fuel expenses, and excessive costs for labor and products have disintegrated their pay rates.
Talking at the current year's Eid-ul-Adha public petitions to heaven coordinated at the Independence Square, the President noticed that the alarming monetary circumstance the nation is encountering is to such an extent that each resident, particularly coordinated work would need to make a few penances.
He spoke to the educator association to get back to the study hall to permit exchanges on their interest for average cost for most everyday items recompense to proceed.
"I'm a lot of mindful that some Teacher associations have proclaimed a strike in quest for a 20% cost for most everyday items stipend interest. I'm glad that yesterday the instructors were joined by different individuals from coordinated work under the umbrella of the Trades Union Congress to plunk down with government, drove by the Ministers of Employment and Labor Relations, and Education to start talks of this.
"I need to add my voice to the allure of the remarkable Minister for Employment and Labor Relations for the educators to get back to the study halls forthcoming the result of these exchanges so the training of our youngsters, some of whom are planning to sit their end of the year tests, isn't impacted," he said.
In the interim, the educator associations' strike activity at the pre-tertiary level is gnawing hard.
Understudies show up at school, drop their packs, and run down the school field to play.
Be that as it may, in the midst of the entirety of the energy and coordinated disorder, a portion of the understudies are concerned and restless. They are planned to take the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (B.E.C.E.) in October. They have expressed that assuming the strike proceeds and they bomb their tests, they will fault the public authority.
Nonetheless, in the midst of the entirety of the energy and coordinated mayhem, a portion of the understudies are stressed and restless. They are planned to take the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (B.E.C.E.) in October. They have expressed that assuming the strike proceeds and they bomb their tests, they will fault the public authority.
As of now, talks are progressing with educators, the Ministers of Education and Employment and Labor relations as well as other government organizations like the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to find a neighborly answer for the issue before things heighten.
Ongoing exchanges have been uncertain, notwithstanding, with the matter brought before the President, heads of the specialists' associations are confident their requests will be met.
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