‘Show us the evidence’ – Upper West teachers demand proof of arrears payments

Reading the joint address, the Upper West Regional Secretary of GNAT, Ransford Owusu-Adjei, said the ongoing industrial action was anchored on three critical unresolved matters: the stalled negotiations on their expired Collective Agreement, the failure to place promoted teachers on their corresponding salary scales and pay their accumulated arrears, and the non-implementation of the agreed 20 per cent deprived-area allowance.

Addressing a joint press conference at the NAGRAT Regional Secretariat in Wa, the three major teacher unions – the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (PRETAG-Upper West) – reaffirmed their unwavering solidarity with their national leadership.

The leadership of the pre-tertiary teacher unions in the Upper West Region has served notice that its members will not call off their ongoing nationwide strike until the government produces verifiable proof that their longstanding grievances have been addressed.