The National Council of Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has unanimously called off its ongoing strike with immediate effect.
This decision comes after an emergency virtual national council meeting on Tuesday, 20 August following CETAG’s meeting with the Office of the Vice-President on 15 August 2024, at the Jubilee House and with the assurance to resolve their concerns.
In a joint statement signed by Prince Himah, National President of CETAG and Thomas Ampomah, the Acting National Secretary of CETAG, the leadership noted that the strike would resume at the end of October 2024, if the employer failed to go by the roadmap agreed by the parties.
The roadmap requires that the frozen July 2024 and August 2024 salaries of CETAG members be paid together at the end of August 2024.
Among other things, the roadmap also asked that the offline migration data be sent to all 46 Colleges of Education for verification by individual staff before processing by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department in September 2024, including the payment after migration reflected in the October 2024 salaries, and that the parties shall meet to agree on the payment plan for all arrears immediately.
This brings the strike initiated in June, in response to the government’s failure to implement agreed-upon arbitral awards and improve conditions of service for its members, to a close until their demands are met.
