Ghana: Polytechnic teachers on strike

  1. Posted on Tuesday 12 October 2010 - 10:04
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    John A. Afful, AfricaNews reporter in Takoradi, Ghana
    Polytechnic teachers in West African nation Ghana have staged a nationwide strike to press home demands for better conditions of service.
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    The decision followed an emergency meeting by the teachers association which earlier threatened to resume its strike if the National Labour Commission fails to address the issues agreed on at their last meeting.

    According to Citi News moments after their meeting, the General Secretary of POTAG, Anthony Ayarkwah, said the POTAG has with immediate effect declared a nationwide strike in all 10 regions of the country.

    He said members of the association will not go back to the lecture theaters until all their grievances are fully addressed by government.

    “POTAG has resolved to put down its tools now until further notice. It means that we are not going to do any research activities; we are not going to do anything that is in our conditions of service until government resolves everything to the latter,” he declared.

    POTAG has raised graved concerns following government failure to address their negotiations and conditions of service that expired in 2008 with the National Labour Commission on the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission that the West African nation introduced.

    According to POTAG, its main concern at the meeting was the conditions of service of its members and not the level of placement of its members on the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).

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