The National Labor Commission (NLC) has ordered the Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) to end its strike and return to negotiations with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC).
The NLC has given the FWSC and CETAG two weeks to meet, negotiate and resolve the disputed issues and report back to the NLC on Wednesday, 08 February 2023.
The directive was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Administration and Human Resources at the NLC, Dr Bernice Welbeck, after the FWSC and CETAG appeared before the commission in Accra.
The NLC further directed that all stakeholders including FWSC, Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, and Principals of Education Conference participate fully in the negotiations.
“The negotiation should be chaired by the FWSC,” the NLC added.
FWSC has filed a complaint of “unfair labor practices and persistent bad faith” to CETAG in a letter dated January 6, 2023.
The complaint is that since the parties are still negotiating the issues in dispute, CETAG issued a communique to its members to start industrial action from January 06, 2023.
The NLC, per Wednesday’s hearing, identified four disputed issues including the non-payment of teaching compensation throughout the year and the payment of some general allowances, vehicle maintenance, security and sanitation allowances and electricity subsidies.
Another is the effective date of the implementation of the negotiated service conditions, which must be January 01, 2022, but unilaterally varies until January 01, 023 by the FWSC and establishes the final date of the staff audit and implementation.
CETAG, however, saw that it will continue the strike on January 6, 2023.
CETAG, in a statement dated January 5, 2023, said that the attitude of stakeholders who have not cared about their concerns about the service conditions of their members for more than two years, calls for the current strike action.
“After the meeting held between the Government Team and CETAG on January 04, 2023, regarding the outstanding issues of CETAG, the National Council of CETAG met to evaluate what happened and concluded that the strike action, which was postponed until December 17, 2022, will continue on Friday, January 6, 2023, if the two-day grace period granted to the minister expires without resolution of the outstanding issue,” CETAG said in a statement.
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
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