The National Council of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has directed its members across all forty-six (46) Ghanaian public colleges of education to resume work Tuesday, January 25, 2022.
This follows CETAG’s suspension of the three-week strike action which was unanimously agreed upon in an emergency meeting held on Monday, January 17.
In a release sighted by ATLFMNEWS, the association said the validation of January salaries and implementation and payment of the 2017-2020 conditions of service (CoS) confirms the implementation of conditions.
It stated that “teaching is restored in all the 46 public colleges of education effective Tuesday, 25th January 2022, as the validation of January 2022 salaries has confirmed the implementation but with disparate payment of arrears of the 2017-2020 CoS.”
The leadership of CETAG however expressed their discontentment in the manner in which the payment of the 2017-2020 arrears has been implemented saying, “there have been widely observed disproportionate anomalies in the payment of the arrears as seen in the validation process across all the 46 public colleges of education.”
As such, they are of the expectation that stakeholders will take the needed steps to remedy the situation by paying fully all unpaid arrears in February 2022 by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD).
Further to that effect, they have asked the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC) to as a matter of urgency take steps to re-engage the leadership of CETAG to conclude the negotiations of the 2021 CoS before the end of February 2022.
The association began the strike action in the first week of January this year when they claimed government’s failure to implement and pay the 2017-2020 conditions of services and arrears respectively, after an MoU was signed between the two parties on September 24, 2021, to that effect.
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Source: Aba Aikins Appah/ATLFMNEWS
