The Association alleged that the Government was only interested in frustrating members to call off the strike.
CETAG declared industrial action two months ago over the compulsory arbitration award, which has been pending since May 2, 2023.
Mr Thomas Ampomah, the Acting National Secretary of CETAG, told the GNA in an interview.
“Until the government provides concrete evidence of implementation by way of payments to our members, we cannot trust the same government, which has misled us for calling off three different strikes on the same matter,” he asserted.
He called on the Government to implement the National Labour Commission’s arbitral award orders and negotiated service conditions.
Other 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.
Mr Ampomah stressed that until those demands were implemented, the Association would not call off the strike.
Mr Ampomah said the Association was fed up with unfulfilled promises by the employer.
“We are no longer interested in the fifth strike; we want our demands to be implemented fully before we resume academic work,” he said.
On whether the Colleges should be closed for no academic activities for two months, the Acting National Secretary said that decision was in the hands of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission.
CETAG on Friday, June 14, 2024, declared an indefinite strike over the government’s delay in implementing their negotiated service conditions.
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) on Friday, June 14, 2024, at a press briefing, described the indefinite strike by CETAG as illegal and borne out of bad faith.
The FWSC said CETAG was in breach of the agreement signed with the Government on May 22, 2023, where both parties agreed to resort to the NLC to address any disagreement.
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