Tutors of Colleges of Education threatens strike in September

Members of the Colleges of Education Tutors Association of Ghana (CETAG) have served notice to embark on strike in September, if the Ministry of Education fails to migrate all the 38 Colleges of Education to tertiary status, by the end of August, 2016.

According to them, they would have no other option than to lay down their tools since the Ministry has failed to heed to their numerous petitions to implement the Colleges of Education Act 847.

“As it stands now our endurance has been overstretched following which we are compelled to embark on strike action at the beginning of September 2016 until we see the migration on our pay slips, if it is not effected by the end of August 2016.”

This was contained in a statement signed by the National Secretary of Colleges of Education Tutors Association of Ghana Mr. Prince Obeng-Himah and copied to Oman FM.

The statement noted that the decision to upgrade training colleges to colleges of education was taken by government but not tutors stressing that it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education to migrate them.

“Our members are disillusioned by the Ministry of Education’s failure to see to the migration of the tutors to our requisite placement to commensurate with our new job description, as contained in the operational document backed by ACT847, which regulate activities of the colleges,” the statement said.

“This is fuelled by the fact that tutors had to borrow huge sums of money of money to sponsor ourselves to undertake prescribed second and third degree programmes in our various disciplines to build the capacity required for our new job description,” the statement added.

The statement chronicled a number of what it described as endless processes they have had to go through which has since not yielded positive results.

The statement acknowledged the fact that almost all the aspects of the tertiary process contained in the Act 847 have been implemented except the migration of tutors as required by the law.

“We cannot continue to exist as tutors in tertiary institutions, work as such, but be given Ghana Education Service conditions of service and status,” the statement concluded.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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