The Director of Grievances and Negotiations at the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Professor Charles Adabor Oppong, has stated that the negotiation between the government’s team and the striking teacher unions could not take place on March 27 because the unions failed to call off the strike.
According to Professor Oppong, the meeting scheduled for Wednesday, which was convened at the instance of the National Labour Commission, was supposed to discuss the way forward after the teachers had suspended their industrial action.
However, representatives of the teacher unions who attended the meeting informed the government’s team that they had not completed the necessary procedures required to call off the strike.
“The teacher unions have not called off the strike, and so we cannot continue to engage them. If indeed they are able to call off the strike, we will meet with them to negotiate. It is also surprising to us that the teacher unions have not complied with the directive of the Labour Commission,” Professor Oppong said.
Recall that on March 26, the National Labour Commission directed the aggrieved teachers to call off their strike and meet with the government to address their grievances within twenty-four hours. The Commission also instructed the government, led by the Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, to distribute the teachers’ laptops within two months.
However, the scheduled meeting between the teacher unions and the government could not take place because the strike was still ongoing.
