{"id":1146465,"date":"2022-07-11T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/what-will-happen-on-tuesday-if-government-fails-to-agree-to-20-cola-check-nagrats-response\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:35:58","slug":"what-will-happen-on-tuesday-if-government-fails-to-agree-to-20-cola-check-nagrats-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/what-will-happen-on-tuesday-if-government-fails-to-agree-to-20-cola-check-nagrats-response\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will Happen On Tuesday If Government Fails To Agree To 20% COLA? \u2013 Check NAGRAT\u2019s Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e70a88ba3c854c38aa3a8046758417f1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teachers have for the past week been on strike demanding for 20% in the Cost Of Living Allowance COLA. According to the Teacher Unions they have tried to negotiate with government on several occasions and yet nothing has come out of it. As a result, over 350,000 teachers have laid down their tools thus denying over 7.2 million kids their services.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/21a51b634570462b91be5d7b44d64fce\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According Joy News\u2019 The Probe, Emefa Apawu, the host questioned Rebecca Ocran Abaidoo, Gender Desk at NAGRAT of what will happen if government fails to heed to their 20% COLA demands. She questioned the response if government appeals to them to change their minds. In response, Rebecca Ocran pointed out that they had a meeting with government and they were represented with an appeal which they rejected.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/e246e83d4fe147fc861afb4de9337e70\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they come with another appeal on Tuesday, then that is a non-starter. Because remember as my colleagues rightly said we started drumming this long time ago since February. We have made attempts and shown a lot of good will and with the sacrifices we have made I think we deserve this 20%,\u201d Rebecca said. <\/p>\n<p>She strongly pointed out that the strike is ongoing contrary to reports that the strike was over because of President Akufo-Addo saying he had cut his salaries so teachers should also show leniency.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Still_Unbeatable (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nEmefa Apawu<br \/>\nJoy News<br \/>\nNAGRAT<br \/>\nRebecca Ocran<br \/>\nRebecca Ocran Abaidoo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers have for the past week been on strike demanding for 20% in the Cost Of Living Allowance COLA. According to the Teacher Unions they have tried to negotiate with government on several occasions and yet nothing has come out of it. As a result, over 350,000 teachers have laid down their tools thus denying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[806,418,17092,2250,1090,2230,20188,3221,1449],"class_list":["post-1146465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-agree","tag-check","tag-cola","tag-fails","tag-government","tag-happen","tag-nagrats","tag-response","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146465","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=1146465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}