The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations decided to refer the deadlock between the government and the striking unions to the NLC, which led to this development.
On Novembe
r 4, the teacher unions announced a sit-down strike in opposition to Dr. Eric Nkansah's appointment as Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
The National Labor Council (NLC) had summoned the unions, according to Angel Carbonu, President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), thus they had to accept the invitation.
We have been summoned because the NLC has invited us to a meeting, therefore we will definitely be there.
According to the National Labour Commission, after hearing from the teaching unions and the administration, it is hoped that the issue will be resolved.
"We'll make an effort to settle the issue at our level. We can handle it, therefore by the end of the day today, there should be a resolution, according to Eyram Dotse Totimeh, the NLC's head of public affairs.
Bright Appiah, the executive director of Child Rights International, asserts that the teacher unions must use alternative channels to bring their complaints to the government's attention. He contends that going on strike is not the wisest course of action.
If there is another way to voice your concerns to the hiring authority, by all means do so; however, if the only way to contact the government is through a strike that directly impacts our children, we must take that into consideration. They can approach the government through various channels to request that it decide whether to uphold that appointment.
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana are the three unions that are on strike (CCT).
Since the start of the strike, the unions have communicated with the government, but the discussions have not produced any results.