{"id":1243181,"date":"2022-11-03T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/labour-ministry-to-meet-teachers-threatening-strike-over-new-ges-boss\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:40:49","slug":"labour-ministry-to-meet-teachers-threatening-strike-over-new-ges-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/03\/labour-ministry-to-meet-teachers-threatening-strike-over-new-ges-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Ministry to meet teachers threatening strike over new GES boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has invited to a meeting teacher unions threatening to embark on a strike if the appointment of the new Director-General for the Ghana Education Service (GES) is not reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Three teacher unions had vowed to lay down their tools following the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah as the Director-General of the GES.<\/p>\n<p>They are, the National President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah explained that the meeting scheduled for Friday, November 4, 2022, is to help \u201cfind [an] amicable resolution to the impasse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unions, since the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah on October 19, have opposed the move, arguing that the new GES Director-General does not qualify to occupy the position.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum had defended the appointment saying that the accusations of the teacher unions were unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education is expected to be at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy this invitation, the Ministry entreats all stakeholders to exercise restraint whilst the matter is being amicably resolved,\u201d the Labour Minister added in the statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-891516 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-11-03-at-17.10.58.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3C3vdLQ4kk0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Education Minister backs appointment of Dr Eric Nkansah as GES Director General | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3C3vdLQ4kk0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has invited to a meeting teacher unions threatening to embark on a strike if the appointment of the new Director-General for the Ghana Education Service (GES) is not reversed. Three teacher unions had vowed to lay down their tools following the appointment of Dr. Eric Nkansah as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243181","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=1243181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}