The Colleges of Education Teachers Association (CETAG) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government as part of efforts to end the 2-month strike action by the association. 

Addressing the media, CETAG’s National Trustee, Maxwell Bunu, explained that most of their concerns have been addressed, as reported by citinewsroom.com.

He stated that a decision on whether to end the strike would be made after further discussions with the association’s leadership.

“The issue of all-year-round work and then the de-freezing of the July salary and the payment of the August salary—I think all these concerns have been addressed. And as a National CETAG Trustee, I don’t think, with my experience here, it will be prudent for CETAG to remain on strike.

“So as we have indicated here, we would certainly go back and convey all the issues that have been discussed and approved of by the officials here, so that by the close of tomorrow, with consultation with the council, I think we will do the needful because we cannot continue to be on strike forever,"  he noted.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, stated that plans have been put in place to make up for the lost academic time.

“Let me also take this opportunity to plead with our students, who perhaps may have gone home as a result of the strike action, to also hurry up and return to school so that academic work can resume.

“PRINCOF and CETAG have been tasked with working together to make sure that the hours lost are made up in a very short time so that it does not affect the next academic year," he stated.

On June 14, 2024, CETAG embarked on a strike action following the government's failure to implement agreed-upon arbitral awards and service conditions set by the National Labour Commission.

Their demands include the payment of one month’s salary to each member for additional duties performed in 2022 and the application of agreed rates of allowances payable to public universities to deserving CETAG members.

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