The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) is demanding the immediate implementation of staff migration and all year-round work compensation as part of the National Labour Commission arbitral awards.
According to CETAG, it has been four months since leadership called off the longest-ever indefinite strike but the employer continuously deceives members with letters, verbal assurances, and supposed incessant correction of errors in the audited staff data, as only four Colleges out of the 46 have been paid fully their all-year-round compensation till date.
CETAG embarked on the longest-ever indefinite strike from 14th June to 19th August 2024 concerning the payment of one-month salary based on CETAG’s proposed salary grade as compensation for additional duty performed in the year 2022 and the migration of Colleges of Education Teachers onto their affiliate university payroll latest by October 30, 2024.
In an interview with Channel One News, the National President of CETAG, Maxwell Bunu accused the government of deliberately denying members of their legitimate Compulsory Arbitration Awards for no justifiable reasons. He revealed plans by members of CETAG to stay away from lectures from January 13, 2025.
“We want to assure the outgoing and the incoming governments that until this is done, no college lecturer will step his or her feet into the classroom to teach come January 13, 2025. So the two governments should collaborate and get this done for the college teacher.
Mr Bunu further called on the Akufo-Addo government to ensure that their demands are fully addressed before December 20, 2024.
“All members of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) are earnestly appealing to the outgoing government, in particular, to take steps to migrate all staff to the university salary structure as we have all agreed at several meetings. We are also asking them to pay the all-year-round work compensation that we deserve for the work that we did in the year 2022”
