2022 trained teachers to picket GES over 10-month unpaid salaries

A group of newly posted teachers from the 2022 batch of Colleges of Education graduates will picket the Ghana Education Service (GES) headquarters on Monday, June 23. They are protesting ten months of unpaid salaries and the delay in issuing their staff IDs.

The 784 affected teachers say GES appointed them on August 1, 2024, but has failed to pay them since. Despite several follow-ups, they say the Service keeps making excuses.

Solomon Opoku Gyan, a member of the group, spoke to the media and described the situation as unbearable. He said the teachers continue to work without pay or staff IDs, and the financial pressure is becoming unbearable.

“We’ve worked for 10 months without salaries. GES keeps promising, but nothing happens. We’re suffering—some of our colleagues have even died because of this hardship,” he lamented.

The group is demanding that GES act swiftly to resolve the delays and formally regularize their employment.