CETAG declares indefinite strike over violation of signed agreements

The College of Education Teachers Association (CETAG) have today January 2, 2024 declared an indefinite strike. The decision to strike according to CETAG follows notices of strike served on September 26, 2024 and December 23, 2024, all of which the National Labour Commission failed to address concerns raised. They believe that the employer continuously violates […] The post CETAG declares indefinite strike over violation of signed agreements appeared first on MyNewsGh.

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CETAG declares indefinite strike over violation of signed agreements

The College of Education Teachers Association (CETAG) have today January 2, 2024 declared an indefinite strike.

The decision to strike according to CETAG follows notices of strike served on September 26, 2024 and December 23, 2024, all of which the National Labour Commission failed to address concerns raised.

They believe that the employer continuously violates signed agreements and roadmaps on the outstanding compulsory arbitration award issued by the NLC on May 2nd 2023.

Grievances Outlined by CETAG Include:

  1. The Employer has willfully failed to comply with the National Labour Commission’s (NLC) Compulsory Arbitration Award issued on 2 nd May, 2023 in breach of section 167 (2 & 3) and section 64 (4) of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651).
  • 2. Failure on the part of the employer, within a period of 20 months, to complete the migration of the colleges of education teaching staff onto the affiliate universities’ pay structure.
  • . Government’s undue delay in paying the remaining forty-two (42) Colleges the one-month basic salary as compensation for all-year-round work done by CETAG members in 2022 as ordered by the NLC on 2nd May, 2023.
  • The prolonged delays of Government in issuing the new appointment letters based on the staff audit report and the affiliate universities’ scheme of service to staffs to enable the migration to be effected by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) in October 2024 as agreed.

5. The non-payment of top-up of Book and research allowance for 2023 to staff of Akrokerri College of Education.

6. The NLC’s inertia in triggering section 172 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651) to compel our Employers to comply with the 2 nd May, 2023 and 31st August, 2023 orders and directives even though the union has written several letters to the Commission for enforcement of the Compulsory Arbitration Awards as specified in section 172 of the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651).

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