The Public Relations Manager of the Ministry of Education, Mr Ekow Vincent Assafual has said that Teacher Unions cannot declare strike for all teachers since Government did not owe all teachers under the Ghana Education Service (GES).
Responding to the representative of the Teachers Unions on Joy TV morning News on 9th December 2019, the PRO said, most of the teachers are going to school because they have been paid by Government.
He said, issues outlined by Teacher Unions ahead of the strike declaration are baseless.
Mr Ekow indicated that the Government would have paid salary arrears to affected teachers had it not been the anomalies detected in data provided.
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Mr Ekow Vincent Assafual later indicated, that the GES had saved the Government GH¢11.3 million after detecting some anomalies in the payment of the arrears and that there was the need to do more to verify the genuineness of the payments before the affected teachers are paid.
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Also, he indicated that the legacy arrears, which relates to outstanding arrears between 2012 and 2016, affected about 120,232 members of staff of the GES, and out of that number, more than 95 per cent had been paid off.
”That notwithstanding, GES and the MoE are working on issues to address errors in the data to pave way for payment of legacy salary of striking teachers.” He said
Source: EducationGhana.net
I hope our unions will let them know that when you have a headache you don’t allow only your head to go see the doctor. We may be individuals but we come together to form a collective body. What will be the meaning of belonging to a union if one will have to fight on his own as a teacher? You help weed my farm today, I help weed yours tomorrow. We have no individualised union. We are a body, a collective one for that matter.
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