Accra, Aug. 18, GNA – The Fair Wages Commission is to the leadership of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association Ghana (CETAG) and other stakeholders on Monday morning.
The meeting which will be hosted and facilitated by the Ministry of Labour and Employment Relations, among other things would discuss concerns of CETAG members whose nationwide strike has entered the second month, leading to a halt in academic work at all the 46 Colleges of Education in the country.
Other stakeholders invited to the meeting include the President of CETAG, Ministry of Finance, Director Tertiary (Ministry of Education), Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF), Director General, GTEC, The Head, Public Financial Management Unit (CPMU), MoF.
This was contained in a letter dated 14th August 2024, and signed by the Chief Executive officer of the Fair Wages Commission, Ing. Benjamin Arthur, also copied the Minister of Finance, Education and the Deputy Minister of Finance.
Background
CETAG members in all 46 Colleges of Education on 14th June embarked on strike action over the government’s delay in implementing their National Labour Commission’s Arbitral Award and negotiated service conditions.
Some of their demands include the payment of one month’s salary to each member for additional duties performed in 2022, and applying agreed rates of allowances payable to public universities to deserving CETAG members.
The impasse has brought academic activities on all campuses of colleges of education to a halt.
Leadership of the College of Education Students Association has therefore proposed closure of the colleges so they could go home while the issue was being resolved.
This, the government has kicked against vehemently, stating that there has been a breakthrough with CETAG and soon members will return to teach.
The President of Princof, Prof. Samuel Atintono, has assured the nation that they were ready to adjust the academic calendar to restore the academic work to normalcy as soon as the CETAG members return to campus.
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