{"id":1143915,"date":"2022-07-07T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/teachers-wont-go-to-school-until-cola-is-paid-angel-carbornu\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:10:28","slug":"teachers-wont-go-to-school-until-cola-is-paid-angel-carbornu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/teachers-wont-go-to-school-until-cola-is-paid-angel-carbornu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Teachers Won\u2019t Go To School Until COLA Is Paid&#8221; \u2013 Angel Carbornu \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Until their demands are honoured, teacher unions will not call off their strike, says Angel Carbornu, president of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT).<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Angel Carbornu said that teachers\u2019 unions had exhausted all other options and that a strike was the only remaining choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gone overboard in our preparations for the strike announcement.\u201d One by one, each of the 10 regional secretaries of the unions made clear to the administration that teachers are working in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Four teacher unions on Monday, July 4 declared an indefinite nationwide strike over demands for the payment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The unions, comprising the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT), are demanding that 20% of their basic salary be paid to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tvdh37ASaPI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Teachers on strike over COLA\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvdh37ASaPI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Until their demands are honoured, teacher unions will not call off their strike, says Angel Carbornu, president of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT). Angel Carbornu said that teachers\u2019 unions had exhausted all other options and that a strike was the only remaining choice. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone overboard in our preparations for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2133,19919,17092,199,753,3483,1298],"class_list":["post-1143915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-angel","tag-carbornu","tag-cola","tag-paid","tag-school","tag-teachers","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}