Newly recruited teachers from colleges of education have threatened to resume their suspended strike on Monday, October 2, 2017 over non-payment of arrears.

“Many members of our Union have received less than half of the salary arrears, which is unusual because the minister of education gave the leadership of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana assurance that the government will pay us in full and not the three-month pay policy (implemented by immediate past government),” they stressed.

“This action is now the last and appropriate option following the long silence of the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service and the Controller and Accountant General Department on the issue of our arrears”.

They stated: “We have realised that it is our employer, GES that is working against us as the head of the IPPD unit stymied the directive of the Minister of Education that he should ensure that we get our arrears appropriately”.

“Teachers are the founders of every institution in the world but in Ghana we are treated like wandering slaves. We are yet to see Ministers, parliamentarians complaining of their arrears. Why teachers? Even the president was taught by a teacher”.

The teachers have called on all stakeholders of education in this country to consider their grievances by ensuring that the government pay their arrears timely.