Teacher Union Announce Sit-down Strike Dates
Professional Teachers of basic and second cycle schools have threaten the government with nationwide strike if their demands are not met by the close of September 2021.
Joana Somiah 
Scores of aggrieved Professional Teachers of basic and second cycle schools have given two months ultimatum to the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Addo-Addo to meet their demands for improved conditions of service or risk a nationwide strike from them.
The end of September 2021 has been logged for government to meet their demands for improved conditions of service or risk a nationwide strike from them.
All three unions -the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) have jointly served notice of their intention to strike if their demand for provision of teaching and learning resources, the payment of allowances for contact and working hours, the upgrading of teachers, and promotion of all qualified teachers to their deserving grades are not met before the end of September 2021.
The leadership of the unions emphasized that challenges regarding payment of allowances, transfer of teachers, performance contracts, and the appointment of teachers in offices of education as heads and assistant heads of schools must be adequately addressed.
"We, the teacher unions are hereby serving notice that if by the close of September 2021, all these issues are not resolved in full by the employer, then we will have no option than to advise ourselves in the best interest of our members within the framework of our collective agreement and the applicable laws of Ghana,” the jointly signed statement read in part.
The teacher unions went on strike in 2019 to demand mainly the payment of outstanding allowances. They later called off the strike when the Government promised to pay them.
However, Government is yet to pay these outstanding allowances owed to the teachers.
The threat of the teachers came at a time when teachers in the various tertiary institutions are also up in arms against the government over poor working conditions of service.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu, Greater Accra Regional Correspondent
