The Concerned Teachers Association has rejected the salary increases for teachers describing it as inadequate. The government announced an upward adjustment in the salaries for teachers between 30 and 70 percent after negotiations with the Ghana National Association of Teachers GNAT. However a number of teacher groups have down played the increase and called it chicken feed. While the National Association of Graduate Teachers said the adjustments amounted to very little, the Concerned Teachers on Sunday held a press conference in the Eastern Regional capital of Koforidua to reject the salary review. The interim Chairman of the concerned teachers Budu Yaw Esamoah told Joy News, the proposed salary increase would not better the lot of the teacher. He said the new structure provided that even the Director General of the Ghana Education Service took home just about five million cedis and that was not enough. Mr Esamoah said teachers were denied a number of allowances that were due them and called for renegotiation of salaries to capture those allowances as well as increase their take home pay. He however ruled out a strike by the group. Meanwhile the group says it was finalising moves to officially break away from GNAT because the teachers’ association had failed to fight for the cause of teachers. The Interim Chairman told Joy News the group, which boasted of some 35,000 members would be meeting next week to conclude discussions, adopt a new name and formerly break away from GNAT.