Executives of three teacher unions, Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT Ghana) have written to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to take action on pertinent issues affecting teachers in Ghana.
Among their demands, the unions said that the government should heed their call, not to tax the Complimentary Digital Instruction Support Allowance as agreed earlier.
Should the government not heed and go ahead with the deduction, the Leadership of the Teacher Unions would not be able to control the actions or inactions of their members, and the Ministry of Education may have itself to blame, in the end, a letter they wrote to the GES Director General said.
They also demand that the Ministry of Education and GES provide a transitional period for all Teachers who want to opt out of TVET Service to GES for them (Teachers) to do so without any restrictions, fear or intimidation. "We wish to sound further that the Teacher Unions would resist the forced implementation of the TVET Service by roping teachers against their will, most of whom are members of Teacher Unions into the membership of the Service by fiat, without any Transitional Period," they said. "We wish to sound this notice, that failure of the Employer, to heed our call and expectations would have the Employer having himself to blame. We have had a very tranquil industrial environment, and we do no want to rock it!