The Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has urged the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) to suspend its indefinite strike, assuring that the government will address their outstanding concerns within a fortnight.
CETAG announced it was embarking on the nationwide strike on Monday, November 24, 2025.
The association said the strike was started due to the government’s failure to fully implement the National Labour Commission’s (NLC) arbitral award issued on May 2, 2023. The strike affects all 46 colleges of education nationwide.
Addressing journalists after a meeting with CETAG leadership on Tuesday, November 25, the minister appealed to CETAG to give the government two weeks to address the concerns they had raised.
He said the government remains committed to addressing the long-standing issues.
“We are negotiating. There were issues for which the National Labour Commission made a declaration and award in CETAG’s favour, which have not been respected by the government since 2022. We will see how we can remedy the situation,” he said.
“I have asked them to consider calling off the strike and giving us two weeks to see what the state can do. It goes back to 2022, but we will fix it within the next two weeks. The ball is in their court.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
