Teachers’ strike continues despite progress in negotiations with govt

However, the communications officer of CCT noted that even though the meeting with the government appears to be fruitful, they will only return to the classroom after engaging with the various teacher councils.

Responding to Umaru Sanda on Citi Eyewitness News, about whether or not they were going to call off the strike, he said: “They directed that we should call off the strike and we said that will go through the necessary processes to meet our various councils and then make a move on that.

“We will start the main negotiation from tomorrow and we have told the commission that we are going to meet our various councils and then we will take it from there and call off the strike if the understanding is reached with them” he added.

Mr Awuley added that they have managed to resolve three key issues with the government.

We have been able to trash out three of them; that is the issue of the scheme of service, where the Ghana Education Service has agreed that by April 8, they will present the draft to the teacher unions.

“Then we have also agreed per what the minister of education put before the committee that by June 2024, all teachers would have our laptops

Then the issue of those whose salaries were blocked by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, the minister said we should give him a month and he is going to resolve that issue, and we have also agreed to that one.