The National Council of Parents Teachers Association has backed striking pre-tertiary teachers' concerns and warned that parents will join unions in street protests if government fails to meet an October 30 deadline for resolving outstanding issues. The PTA secretary said parents recognise the legitimacy of teachers' grievances and urges the government to honour its commitments, while hoping ongoing discussions will lead to resolution.
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The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission CEO says negotiations with striking pre-tertiary teacher unions have stalled over a demand for a new allowance. He states the commission is operating under a transitional arrangement and unions should focus on enhancing existing allowances rather than comprehensive negotiations on conditions of service.
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Innovative Teachers Union has issued a demand notice threatening legal action over its exclusion from the 2026 Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations for Ghana Education Service teaching staff. The union argues that although GNAT holds the collective bargaining certificate, Labour Regulations require it to consult or invite other unions representing the same class of workers, and alleges GNAT failed to consult it during the 2020, 2024 and 2026 processes while consulting NAGRAT and PRETAG.
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Parliament's Education Committee Vice Chair Joseph Kumah says government has funds to meet financial obligations to teachers, but administrative processes such as data uploading and validation are causing delays in settling outstanding payments including deprived-area allowances and promotion arrears.
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Labour consultant Austin Gamey has criticised pre-tertiary teacher unions for maintaining their nationwide strike while negotiations with government are ongoing, arguing that unions cannot negotiate effectively while holding industrial action in place. He said the unions should suspend the strike now that government has begun validating outstanding promotion claims and both sides are engaged in talks.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission has proposed that the Ghana Education Service process teacher promotions at regional levels rather than nationwide to reduce administrative burden and prevent delays in payment of promotion-related arrears. He explained that processing promotion data from across the country creates an overwhelming workload, and that a regional approach would allow authorities to complete processing and clear payments in one region before moving to the next.
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The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission's CEO says the commission began negotiations with pre-tertiary teacher unions in April over their continuous service concerns, and that union dissatisfaction with proposals does not indicate government failed to engage them seriously.
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The Institute for Education Studies' executive director has supported pre-tertiary teacher unions' nationwide strike, arguing that industrial action is the only way to compel government to address outstanding concerns about collective agreements and conditions of service that teachers have raised since late 2025.
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Education policy analyst Dr Peter Anti defended pre-tertiary teacher unions' nationwide strike, arguing that government failed to act with urgency despite teachers notifying authorities in late 2025 about renegotiating their collective agreement, which expired in June 2026. He cautioned that suspending the strike before outstanding issues are resolved could result in further delays in payments and negotiations.
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The National Association of Graduate Teachers is calling on government to clarify when about 29,000 teachers still awaiting promotion will be processed, after government completed processing for 51,000 from a backlog of over 80,000. NAGRAT also noted that even the 51,000 processed teachers have not yet received their promotion-related payments, though the Education Minister indicated supplementary vouchers would be provided with payments made from October 6.
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Ghana's pre-tertiary teacher unions have kept their nationwide strike in force after talks between the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, Ghana Education Service, and the unions ended without agreement. The parties will reconvene on Wednesday to address outstanding issues including the processing of promotion data and arrears payments to teachers.
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The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has expressed concern that the ongoing strike by three teacher unions is adversely affecting the Ghana School Feeding Programme, putting perishable foodstuffs at risk and threatening the livelihoods of caterers, about 95% of whom are women. The strike over unpaid promotion arrears and delayed negotiations has led to the closure of public basic schools across the country.
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Deputy Minister of Education Dr Clement Apaak has appealed to striking pre-tertiary teachers to return to classrooms while government works to resolve their concerns, including promotions, salary adjustments, and conditions of service. He said government had agreed that nearly 80,000 teachers who passed promotional examinations would receive new salary scales and allowances with effect from January 2026, and explained delays were partly due to data transfer challenges between the Ghana Education Service and the Controller and Accountant-General's Department.
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The Minister of Education said the Government is committed to resolving outstanding teacher grievances, including promotion arrears and implementation of a deprived-area allowance for teachers in underserved communities. The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission will engage teacher unions on their expired collective agreement, and discussions are ongoing to validate data on deprived schools to determine eligibility for the allowance.
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