Teachers Strike Affecting Students At Assin Foso -As Students Area Roaming On The Streets
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Information reaching Soireenews.com indicates that thousands of students in the Assin Foso Municipality of the Central Region are roaming on the compounds and principal streets in the municipality.
Although there are directives that the students were to stay in the various classrooms during an usual school hours in the wake of the current strike action of the teachers, the Soirreenews.com, gathered that majority of the students in Assin Foso enclaves have ingored the directives.
This phenomenon follows the decision of the pre- tertiary teachers to boycott their teaching activities to embark an industrial strike on Monday July 4, 2022 across the country to demand the payment of the cost-of-living allowance.
The Pre-Tertiary teacher unions in Ghana have declared an indefinite strike action with immediate effect following the failure of government to pay the cost of living allowance (COLA) they asked for.
The unions are the Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union.
The unions declared the strike Monday morning (July 4, 2022) at a press conference in Accra,
The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations has invited the leadership of teacher unions to a meeting over their demands for the payment of cost of living allowance (COLA) to members.
It said only the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) had responded to attend, with the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Coalition of Concerned Teachers-Ghana (CCT-GH) and the Teacher and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) yet to respond.
It said once the other unions were ready for the meeting, it would be held, adding that the government was not insensitive to the plight of teachers and workers in general.
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