The General Secretary of the Teachers’ and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) Mark Denkyira Korankye says the teacher union cannot be blamed for how the meeting with government ended yesterday.
According to him, government’s demands that they call off the strike and continue with negotiations was impossible because the letter addressed to them for a meeting did not indicate they call off their strike.
Speaking to the media, Mr Korankye says, leadership of the striking teacher unions are in talks to resolve the stalemate.
He added that members of the union are happy with the decision of their representatives not accepting the demand of government.
” Past experiences are what is guiding recent turn of event. We are still in talks with government and I’m sure we will get to the bottom of it. We are not calling off the strike because nothing has been presented on the table. If we are calling off the strike, it means there must be something presented on the table,” He said.
However, the General Secretary of the Public Services Workers Union, Bernard Agyei, says government approach to resolving the matter at hand is a failure.
Therefore by July 19, if the government fails to resolve the issue, they would be forced to take a decision.
” I would wish the government deals with this quickly so that once we get what we want to our satisfactory for all of us, we will go back to report to our people that we’ve gotten something that is satisfactory so we can now call off the strike. But as we speak now, our intension still stands if by 19 July this thing is not resolved, the structures would take a decision,” Mr Agyei said.
