{"id":761516,"date":"2019-12-10T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/10\/teachers-strike-effective-in-bolgatanga-municipality\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:22:17","slug":"teachers-strike-effective-in-bolgatanga-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/10\/teachers-strike-effective-in-bolgatanga-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers\u2019 strike effective in Bolgatanga Municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_start --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPrint<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-date\">Monday 9th December, 2019<\/h4>\n<div class=\"image-box\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"main\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/social-teachers-strike.jpg\" alt=\"Teachers Strike\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"display:none\" itemprop=\"description\">news, story, article<\/span><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nAnthony Apubeo, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Bolgatanga, Dec 9,<br \/>\nGNA \u2013 The nationwide strike action declared by three teacher unions has taken<br \/>\neffect in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region with teachers<br \/>\nabandoning classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Students and pupils<br \/>\nwho attended school on Monday, December 9 were asked to return home by teachers<br \/>\nof some schools while in other schools there were no teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Three teacher<br \/>\nunions, the Ghana National Teachers Association (GNAT), National Association of<br \/>\nGraduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana,<br \/>\njointly declared to lay down their tools on December 9, 2019, over government\u2019s<br \/>\nfailure to meet their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The teacher unions<br \/>\ndeclared their intention to embark on a nationwide strike after their plea with<br \/>\ngovernment to settle all arears owed teachers since 2012 and improve their<br \/>\nworking conditions had not materialized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u00a0A visit by the Ghana News Agency to some<br \/>\nschools in the Municipality showed that the few teachers who turned up in some<br \/>\nschools refused to teach and rather asked the pupils to go home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">When the GNA caught<br \/>\nup with some of the pupils who were returning home from their schools, they<br \/>\nsaid their teachers had gone on strike and none of them came to school.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">At St Charles,<br \/>\nAtozongo, Kulgu, Kolgo, Atampuruum and Atampuruum B primary and Junior High<br \/>\nSchools, all the classrooms were locked up and there was no single teacher or<br \/>\npupil in any of the schools by 11:00 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"IL_IN_TAG\" value=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print Monday 9th December, 2019 news, story, article By Anthony Apubeo, GNA Bolgatanga, Dec 9, GNA \u2013 The nationwide strike action declared by three teacher unions has taken effect in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region with teachers abandoning classes. 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