The Teachers’ and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) has declared a nationwide strike beginning today, Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
The action, according to TEWU, has been necessitated by the failure of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to conclude negotiation on their demand for better conditions of service.
The Union, according to leaders is supposed to be given other allowances that other entities get, but they don’t get at the moment.
The Union said the inability of the Commission to conclude negotiations with it, following the Union’s engagement with the Commission in June 2019 on the Review of the Conditions of Service for Unionized Staff of the Public Universities which expired in 2008.
In November 2020, the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has signed a new Conditions of Service with the Ghana Education Service (GES), after the last one expired over ten years ago.
The statement which quoted Mr. Mark D. Koranteng, the Acting General Secretary of TEWU, said over 13 years now, TEWU’s Conditions of Service expired, but could not be reviewed, because of the implementation of the policy on the migration of all government employees unto the Single Spine Salary Pay Structure.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
