Good News Finally Drops; Teacher Unions Call Off Strike
After the National Labour Commission (NLC) got a restraining order against them from the court on Friday, November 11, the teacher unions that were on strike stopped.
On Friday, November 11, Angel Carbonou, president of the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), told reporters, “We can’t ignore the court order. So, we’re telling all of our members to get back to work on Monday. Monday is when every teacher should go to work.”
He said, “We are law-abiding citizens, so we have decided to follow the court’s orders. We have asked our members to end the strike and go back to the classrooms. We are also going to follow the Labour Commission’s order that we meet with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and report to them on the 16th about the problems that caused the strike in the first place.”
The NLC took NAGRAT, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) to court for not following its order to go back to the classrooms while they talked with the government about what caused their strike.
On Monday, November 7, the unions’ leaders told their members to keep staying home because their meeting with the government didn’t lead to any clear decisions.
After the first day of the meeting on November 7, Rev. Isaac Owusu, who is the president of the GNAT, said, “I can tell you for sure that so far, so good, we have had a very productive meeting.” The parties have agreed to stop talking for now and pick up where they left off tomorrow at 2 PM.
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