NPP government and Teachers of Ghana tussle over salary arears.

From time immemorial government upon governments have reneged upon their promises to make the lots of teachers better.  The use of education and teachers welfare issues on political campaign platforms to get into political power in the 4th republic in Ghana especially around the 2000 to date is a common phenomenon and mind-boggling.

The biggest beneficiary of this, is the NPP government on Free Senior High school ,  restoration of teacher trainee allowance and payment of all legacy teachers salary arears and other mouth watering promises. There is no debate the fact that,  every government that attain political power inherit assets and liabilities and as such should make every effort to work on its liabilities like the case of teachers salary arears spanning 2012 to 2016.

It is almost 3years now Since the New Patriotic Party won power and being in charge but very little has been added or changed for the best in terms of teachers welfare.  It is no surprising this wake up call and industrial strike by the three major teacher unions in Ghana to put pepper into the eyes of the NPP government to fulfill their promises to teachers.

The NPP government has failed on countless occasions when the teacher unions met them to negotiate these payments and this is having serious repercussions on teaching and learning  like frequent absenteeism by teachers, drunkenness, lack of respect for teachers,pregnancies,  indiscipline,  mass failure at BECE just to mention a few.

Just to digress a bit, the government rather prefer to invest in their foot-soldiers by offering them big and corrupt contracts, putting square pegs in round holes to be in charge of state offices to loot us dry.  How can we have more than 120 ministers and cry wolf that Ghana has no money to pay teachers of their well deserved salary arears.  Just think about this insensitivity and crass incompetence of these dudes.

We will continue to strike and fight for our rights until we get our salary arears fully paid into our accounts.

"Solidarity Forever
For The union makes us strong

They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not
A single wheel would turn,
We can break their naughty power
Gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong "
Excerpt from GNAT solidarity song


Aluta continua!!!