Four Teacher Unions Declared Nationwide Strike Effective Today
Four Teacher Unions in Ghana namely; GNAT, NAGRAT TEWU, and CCT-GH in a press release dated 4th July 2022 declared an indefinite nationwide strike.
“Unions have severally called for the government’s grant of a 20% Cost-of living-Allowance (COLA) to the Ghanaian Worker generally, and in particular, teachers and educational Workers of the Pre-Tertiary Education level. These calls. unfortunately, have fallen on deaf ears” The Unions stated
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JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE LEADERSHIP OF GNAT. NAGRAT, TEWU AND CCT-GH ON MONDAY JULY 4TH
2022
Distinguished Media Guests, we welcome you to this occasion and also, to express to you our thanks for your usual support evidenced by your presence. Dear Media friends, this meeting is a reversion to you and the generality of the populace on our declarations at our earlier respective Press Conferences relative to the matter of Cost-of-Living-Allowance (COLA), We wish to remind government of the responsibility imposed on her by Article 36 of the 1992 Constitution: thus, (1) “the State shall take all necessary action to ensure that the national economy is managed in such a manner as to maximize the rate of economic development and to secure the maximum welfare, freedom and happiness of every person in Ghana and to provide adequate means of livelihood and suitable employment and public assistance to the needy. (2) The State shall, in particular, take all necessary steps to establish a sound and healthy economy whose underlying principles shall include = (a) the guarantee of a fair and realistic remuneration for production and productivity in order to encourage continued production and higher productivity: (e) the recognition that the most secure democracy is the one that assures the basic necessities of life for its people as a fundamental duty.” Colleagues, you may recollect, and without sounding repetitive and monotonous. that the Unions have severally called for the government’s grant of a 20% Cost-OfLiving-Allowance (COLA) to the Ghanaian Worker generally, and in particular, teachers and educational Workers of the Pre-Tertiary Education level. These calls. unfortunately, have fallen on deaf ears. We wish to use this forum to express our displeasure over this insensitivity of the government regarding our demand.
