CETAG threatens indefinite strike from 31 December over “broken promises”

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association (CETAG) has threatened to go on strike on 31 December unless the government fulfils a number of unfulfilled commitments.

According to the association, the union was forced to take additional industrial action as a result of repeated violations of agreements signed earlier in 2024.

In a statement released on Monday, 23 December, CETAG outlined the issues relating to their threat to strike.

“We have been forced into this position due to blatant disregard for our agreement, which is negatively affecting our members and the education sector at large,” CETAG stated.

CETAG highlighted several key grievances, including the government’s failure to complete, the migration of teaching staff to affiliate universities’ pay structures, delayed appointments for staff, and non-payment of compensation for extra work done in 2022.

The current decision of the National Council to resort to another strike action is based on the following grounds:

“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.

“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,” the statement reads.

Read full statement below:

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