Ghana’s Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has come hard on school teachers over the ongoing nationwide strike.

The Commission’s chief executive, Mr Ben Arthur, speaking on local media, claimed that the teacher unions had disregarded the processes for declaring a strike and had also failed to respect an order by the National Labour Commission (NLC) for them to call off their strike.

He also lambasted them for failing to show up for a meeting called by the FWSC and its mother agency, the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations.

On March 20, the three teacher unions namely, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) declared a strike due to unsatisfactory conditions of service.

According to the unions, the government had failed to renew its collective agreement, among other concerns, following its expiration in 2023.