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Public Service Personnel hold the stronghold as instructors strike for COLA
Source: avea1tv
School Authorities have been constrained to depend on National Service Personnel (NSP) without a trace of the striking instructors.
Four instructor associations are right now protesting over their interest for the 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
As indicated by the representative for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng, the utilization of NSP is essential for an alternate course of action carried out to moderate the impact of the strike.
"The emergency course of action, I am mindful that National Service Personnel are at post and they are helping along with the overseers of training, both at the provincial and the region levels with some school Management," he said.
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He expressed that the Ministry is attempting to determine the issue for the educators to continue their posts.
"We trust that at the earliest opportunity, we can address the worry that has been raised by our educator associations so we restore things once again. However, we are expressing that in the meantime, we appreciate and we keep on valuing that they attempt to something like mellow their position, have a thoughtful situation in front of any future commitment that we will have," he argued.
Four instructor associations proclaimed an endless cross country strike - successful Monday, July 4 - over requests for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
The associations contain the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT).
They have put their modern activity on government's inability to pay the COLA, which they contend might have assisted with moderating the effect of the increasing cost for most everyday items.
Be that as it may, after a June 30 cutoff time was depleted, the specialists have removed their administrations, both in and outside the homeroom.
Meanwhile, a gathering between the Employment Ministry and the striking instructor associations on Wednesday finished uncertainly with the educators declining to cancel their strike.
The gathering was gone to by agents from the Ministry of Finance, the CEO of Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Benjamin Arthur; Director-General of Ghana Education Service, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa; Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum and Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah.
An individual from the initiative of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Isaac Baah who was available at the gathering told JoyNews in a meeting that the "public authority came with essentially nothing thus we finished the gathering".
As per him, the crunch meeting hung on Wednesday, which was supposed to determine the stalemate, didn't keep going long.
He said the delegates at the gathering told them "they didn't have the command" to give the 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) the instructor associations have requested.
Mr. Baah made sense of that the public authority authorities who went to the gathering mentioned the educator associations to cancel the strike before discussions could start.
He anyway repeated that instructors won't continue work until the public authority meets their 20% COLA interest.
Public Service Personnel hold the stronghold as instructors strike for COLA
Representative for Education Ministry, Kwasi Kwarteng
Be that as it may, Public Relations Officer of the Education Ministry, Kwasi Kwarteng said government will keep on connecting with the educators on their requests.
"We will keep on connecting with them authoritatively and informally, both officially and casually. I can clearly address the present [Wednesday] meeting, the result of the gathering and I am certain that in view of the present gathering, the public authority's side clearly will meet again very much like the educator associations they have spoke to," he told Emefa Apawu on Newsnight, Wednesday.
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