Three Teacher Unions, Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers and Coalition of Concerned Teachers-Ghana, have declared an industrial action effective today.
The strike is in connection with arrears owed them from 2012 to 2016.
They say that several meetings with the Ghana Education Service on the matter have proven futile.
In a joint statement read by the National President of GNAT, Philippa Larsen said the Ghana Education Service is not being fair to the teachers with the excuse that there are discrepancies in the data verified and approved for payment by the Internal Audit Unit of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department.
Meanwhile the Ghana Education Service has expressed shock by the decision of three Teacher Unions to embark on a strike over the non-payment of salary arrears.
The GES in a statement explained that the Legacy Arrears relate to outstanding salary arrears between 2012 and 2016 and affected about 120 thousand 232 staff of the Service.
The statement said since 2017, the current government has taken deliberate actions to pay off the arrears due those who deserve them.
It said, as of September 2019, about 87 thousand 556 staff of GES had been paid their full salary arrears, representing 95 percent of total staff validated for payment.