Dec 7 appointments: We’re dialoguing with govt – Leadership of Pre-Tertiary Teacher Unions assures members

The leadership of the Pre-Tertiary Teacher Unions has called for calm among teachers who are apprehensive about their appointments being revoked.

Their anxiety stems from a circular issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to heads of schools to ensure that the appointments of teachers who were recruited after December 7 are terminated.

In an exclusive interview with 3news on February 19, General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Thomas Tanko Musah, appealed to the anxious teachers to be calm.

“We need to give the employer the benefit of hindsight. To the extent that we have an assurance of engagement for us to find out how we can resolve, together let us work to resolve all the issues. If there are other things we are not able to resolve we meet our members and decide on the next line of action.

“So, to the extent that dialogue has not broken down and the employer has shown commitment that, look, let us work together to resolve the problem,” he noted.

President of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), King Ali Awudu, entreated the Ghana Education Service to hasten slowly.

“In the Ghana Education Service, there are a lot of vacancies, and between August about November, the GES recruited about 20,000 people to fill the positions of people who have died and those who have left the profession. Nobody can assume that those recruited wore a certain party colour,” he argued.