Teachers in all thirty eight (38) Public Colleges of Education have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday September 12.
Their strike according to a statement is over what they described as “unduly delayed migration” to enable them draw salaries as tutors from other tertiary institutions.
The National Executives Committee of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana took the decision after a meeting, resolved to implement the strike because previous meetings have failed to yield any fruitful outcome.
The teachers blame the Ministries of Finance and Employment and Labour Relations and the National Labour Commission for, according to them, “showing lack of commitment to migrate the tutors to our requisite placement in our tertiary dispensation according to the dictates of ACT 847”.
The National Secretary of the association Prince Obeng Heman said “from 2012 up till now all the engagements that we’ve had have ended in a deadlock. So we think that they have not shown any strong commitment of doing that.”
“We should be on new ranks now that should commensurate the new job that we are doing. All the meetings we’ve had, not even one minister has been there. If even you say the substantive minister is busy, he has two deputies… Not even one of them has shown the commitment to be there.”
The strike would affect teaching in all the institutions across the country.
Mr. Heman further indicated that “we take this as a strike of our lives, a strike of destiny and we are prepared to stretch up to the limit until we are migrated. When we see the payment reflect in our bank accounts, that is when we would reconsider our decision.”