The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has withdrawn all services in response to the government’s order to freeze their July salaries.
On July 22, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) directed the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to suspend the salaries of all CETAG members on strike, with the exception of the Principals, for July 2024.
In reaction, CETAG announced on July 23 that it is ceasing all services, including attendance at meetings, participation in ceremonies, provision of academic counseling, and supervision of students in residence halls, effective immediately.
The decision was made during an emergency National Council meeting.
The Association has also referred the government’s salary freeze directive to their legal team for further action.
GTEC has called on the striking CETAG members to return to their duties, assuring them that their grievances are being addressed.
“I will plead with them that look we cannot continue to bastardise our institutions in this manner of continual perennial strikes because the more you go on strike the more you make your institutions unattractive,” the Acting Director General of GTEC, Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai said.
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