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The Ghana National association of teachers(GNAT) is worried about the Ghana Education Service’s reluctance to promote teachers and members of the association to their designated ranks.

GNAT at it’s 2022 national council meeting indicated, this including “delays in supplying laptops, allowances payment and opening of base pay negotiations could trigger labour unrest among teachers” across the country.

In a communique, GNAT says the decision by the Ministry of Education to appoint a Director General of the GES “who is not a thoroughbred educationist not only sets a bad precedent, but also sends a negative signal to hardworking teachers and educationists that they have no opportunity of occupying that space” in the future.

It would be recalled, the recent appointment of a new director general of the GES had caused uproar among teacher unions and according to the national council of GNAT, “the response of the ministry of education on the matter on concerns raised, further goes to create disharmony” in the education labour front.

The “council finds this irritating and provocative; with the potential of disturbing the peace on the education front

GNAT therefore calls on the Ministry of education and GES to resolve this issue” and all other matters relating to this and lower rank promotions by the end of December this year

Already, GNAT also asked the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations to open the window for base pay negotiations by November, 2022.