{"id":765563,"date":"2019-12-15T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/15\/striking-teachers-still-absent-in-schools-in-kumasi\/"},"modified":"2019-12-15T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T17:35:20","slug":"striking-teachers-still-absent-in-schools-in-kumasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/15\/striking-teachers-still-absent-in-schools-in-kumasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking teachers still absent in schools in Kumasi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By
\nPriscilla Obour\/Portia Ofori\/Mabel Owusu\/Dominic Antwi Agyei, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Kumasi, Dec. 15, GNA
\n\u2013 Majority of striking teachers in most basic and senior high schools in the
\nKumasi Metropolis, have not yet resumed work despite the National Labour
\nCommission\u2019s (NLC) directive to the three striking teacher unions to call off
\nthe action with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Unions – Ghana
\nNational Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate
\nTeachers (NAGRAT) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), last Friday
\ndeclared a nationwide strike to back their demand for the payment of what it
\ntermed legacy arrears, owed to its members by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

The areas covering
\nsalaries and allowances, according to the unions had not been paid since 2012
\nto 2016, regardless of efforts to prevail on government to effect the payment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The strike action
\nstarted on Monday December 9, however, on Tuesday December 10, Mr Andy Kwabena
\nAsamoah, the National Chairman of the NLC, described the ongoing strike of the
\nUnions as illegal and ordered the striking unions to call off the strike and
\ninstruct their members to go back to the classroom and teach.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was after a
\nmeeting between the NLC, representatives of the Ghana Education Service (GES),
\nMinistry of Education (MOE), the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

A visit by the Ghana
\nNews Agency team to some basic and senior high schools Kumasi, revealed that a
\nfew of the teachers were present at school, but were not teaching, while a good
\nnumber did not show up at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

A handful of the
\npupils were in the classroom learning on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

In most of the
\nschools visited, the pupils did not also show up in school at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, a few
\nJunior High Schools (JHS) teachers were seen teaching the final year students
\nbecause of the impending Basic School Certificate Examination (BECE).<\/span><\/p>\n

A teacher of the one
\nthe schools, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on condition of anonymity,
\nexplained that most of his colleagues are reluctant to resume teaching because
\nthey had not heard anything from their union leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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