Parents are to note that, the Teachers COLA Strike is still ongoing. We suggest that parents should let their wards stay at home.
Teachers COLA Strike Still On: Let Your Children Stay Home
Letting your children stay at home is the best option, since there may be nobody in school to take care of them. Students in basic school can be seen loitering in town and moving from one friend’s home to the other in their uniforms.
If the teachers who teach your wards are at home and there is also no one to provide security for your wards, it is better they stay at home. See this situation as a mini-vacation as a parent and adjust until the issues are calmed and resolved.
Everyone was expecting the government to bring a solution to the table today after it invited the stakeholders including the striking teacher unions to the negotiating table today however, the government went empty-handed and requested that the unions call off their strike before negotiations can start.
The Teachers’ Strike Continues after a failed Negotiation with Government on COLA today. The teacher unions walked out of the meeting because the representatives of the government came without a new offer and only came to demand that the unions call off the strike before negotiating to commence. This was the same posture they have in the first meeting that ended inconclusively.
The posture of the government does not suggest it wants to deal with this issue now and get the teachers and students back into the classrooms.
Some leaders of the teacher unions have described the events that unfolded at the supposed nogotaiting meeting as unfortunate.
Reacting to the outcome of the meeting, Thomas Musah said, “I think that what has happened today is very unfortunate. What we can say now is that our negotiation has come inconclusively, and we are still on strike”
Presidents of the National Association of Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Angel Carbonou and Thomas Musah respectively, who attended the meeting in Accra, told journalists after stepping out that the government’s representatives were insisting that the unions call off the strike before negotiations start.
Students who are preparing for the BECE and WASSCE are those really feeling the heat of the moment, and the earlier government works something out, the better.
READ: 2022 COLA STRIKE: Teacher Unions walk out of Negotiation Meeting
It looks as though the COLA Strike will continue for another week or so until both parties make some compromises, with more expected from the government and its representatives. For now, the Cost of Living Allowance strike declared by GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT-GH, and TEWU continues and enters day 9 on Tuesday 13th July 2022.
Source: Ghana Education News