The industrial action called by the three teacher unions was received with mixed reactions by the rank and file of the unions on its first day.
While some teachers heeded the call to lay down their tools over what they said was the delay in the payment of the legacy arrears, others defied their leadership by reporting to school to work.
This came to light when the Daily Graphic visited some basic and second-cycle schools to observe how the strike declared by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana (CCT) was received by teachers.
Last Thursday, the teacher unions said they were embarking on the strike from yesterday over the failure of the government to pay the legacy arrears due members.
The legacy arrears spanned the period 2012 to 2016.
The unions, among other things, said they were concerned with the payment of the arrears because their checks had revealed that the arrears had been verified and approved for payment by the Controller and Accountant-General’s Internal Audit Unit about three weeks earlier.
But the GES expressed shock at the strike by the unions, saying the conduct of the union leaders was in bad faith and undermined the good working relations which had been established and nurtured over the years.
According to the Director-General of the GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, about 95 per cent of the affected 120,232 staff of the GES had been paid and the rest was going through the process to be paid.
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