CETAG and CENTSAG Declare Indefinite Strike

By | November 13, 2022
CETAG and CENTSAG Declare Indefinite Strike

CETAG and CENTSAG Declare Indefinite Strike

Colleges of Education Teachers Association Of Ghana (CETAG) and Colleges of Education Non-Teaching Association of Ghana (CENTSAG) in a release have reactivated their suspended indefinite industrial actions.

In the release, signed by

Mr. Prince Obeng-Himah National President, of CETAG, and Mr. Frederick Forkuo Yeboah National President, of CENTSAG, listed some reasons for their decision to reactivate their indefinite strike which will commence tomorrow Monday 14th November for both associations is mentioned.

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The notice reads:

“Following the Joint-Communiqué issued by CETAG and CENTSAG on Sunday 6th November 2022 giving the employer five crucial working days to address our concerns failure of which we shall reactivate our suspended indefinite strikes, the National Councils of both CETAG and CENTSAG held separate emergency meetings on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2022 respectively and affirmed the decision to reactivate our suspended indefinite industrial actions effective Monday, 14 November 2022.

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Our decision to withdraw our services indefinitely is a result of the following:

  1. Failure of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to make available to CETAG and CENTSAG a draft Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) which captures what the parties mutually agreed on at the end of our negotiations for us to study before proceeding to sign off.
  2. Unilateral variation of the effective date of CETAG’s 2021 Conditions of Service (COS) by FWSC

from 1 January 2022 to 1″ January 2023 contrary to the Rules of Engagement for the negotiations.

  1. Unilateral determination of April 2023 by the FWSC as the effective date for placing First Degree Holders of CENTSAG on 17H on the SSSS contrary to the Rules of Engagement for the negotiations.
  2. Undue delay of the Ministry of Education to approve the payment of compensation for the all-year-round work to a staff of the colleges of education.
  3. Unfair retrospective deduction of office holding allowances paid to some members of CENTSAG and

CETAG by the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD).

  1. Deliberate variation of Fuel, Vehicle Maintenance, and Off-Campus allowances of CETAG and CENTSAG members as compared to our counterparts in other analogous institutions in the face of the rising cost of fuel prices in the country.

The National Councils of CETAG and CENTSAG wish to use this communiqué to entreat all members, except the colleges’ security department, to comply with the decision to withdraw our services indefinitely until the employer has unconditionally addressed all our concerns regarding CoS, the effective date for placing First Degree Holders, retrospective deductions, variation of fuel, vehicle maintenance and off- campus allowance as well as compensation for the all-year-round work.”

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