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The Executive Secretary of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST-Ghana) Dr Peter Partey Anti has said that a Memenorudmum of Understanding (MoU) should have been signed during the meeting held on Wednesday, July 24 between the Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum and Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG).
The MoU he said would have contained commitments and timelines to meet the commitments in addressing the concerns of CETAG which resulted in the strike.
Speaking on the Big Issue on TV3 Thursday, July 25, he said “I was thinking that the meeting would have come out with and MoU.”
“The issues are about the condition of services and allowances to be paid. So there should be an MoU signed by relevant parties and certain timelines set so that CETAG can go back to the classroom,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has said that the government has made strides in addressing the issues of CETAG which resulted in their strike.
The Minister told journalists in Accra on Wednesday, July 24 after an engagement with stakeholders that “we have made great progress, we have made giant strides.”
CETAG withdrew all services following the decision by the government to withhold their July salary.
CETAG explained that the decision is in response to the Minister of Education’s directive to Principals and the Controller and Accountant General not to validate the July 2024 salaries of teaching staff of the 46 public colleges of education due to their ongoing strike.
“Leadership has referred the illegal directive to freeze our July salaries to our lawyers to take the necessary action on it immediately,” the statement dated July 23 added.
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The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) had directed the Controller and Accountants General to freeze the July salary of members of CETAG. This was after the government described the strike by CETAG as illegal.
A letter written to the CAGD by the Director General of GTEC Prof Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai said “At the instance of the Minister of Education on the non-adherence of CETAG members to call off an illegal strike from June 2024, you are by this letter requested to stop the salaries of all teaching staff of the Colleges of Education (CETAG) except for the College Principals for July 2024.
“By this letter, College Principals are not to validate the July 2024 salaries of all teaching staff.”
The leadership of CETAG first announced an indefinite strike that started Friday, June 14, 2024.
The strike was to register their grievance over the government’s delay in implementing the National Labour Commission’s (NLC) Arbitral Award Orders and negotiated service conditions.
“CETAG wishes to call on every member to immediately comply with this declaration by withdrawing teaching and related services indefinitely across all 46 Public colleges of education until all the orders arising from the Compulsory Arbitration Awards and related concerns are fully implemented by way of payments to our members and implementations thereof. Thank you.”
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