COLA Strike: Stop scaring our individuals - TEWU tells CHASS
The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has forewarned the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) to cease from threatening its non-instructing individuals.
TEWU in a proclamation dated July 7 blamed a few Heads for Senior High Schools of scaring its individuals with dangers to continue work.
"It is miserable to take note of this, data contacting us is that a few individuals from the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) are scaring our individuals, the non-showing staff, particularly the kitchen staff and driving them to stay at work. We track down the activities of these CHASS individuals as extremely sad, most definitely," portions of the assertion read.
This follows the strike activity announced by the four educator associations, in particular; the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) of TUC (GH) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers on Tuesday over their interest for Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
TEWU, accordingly, needs "the Director-General of GES to call these Heads to arrange.
"We are by this medium, mentioning the Director-General of GES to call these Heads to arrange and request that they forgo the dangers and scares as we as a whole look for the suitable reaction from Government on our solicitation."
The Union emphasized its purpose to stay protesting until the public authority fulfills its needs.
It would be reviewed that on July 4 the four instructor associations pronounced an endless strike over requests for the installment of Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
"We can never again bear the difficulty. Significantly more thus, we reject the imbalance of compensations in the public administrations of this country. We have been constrained under the ongoing conditions to openly impart to Ghanaians on our expectation to picket, having gone past the June 30, 2022 cutoff time [that] we gave government for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance.
"Thus, we have chosen to leave on a strike activity successful today, Monday, July 4, 2022. By this, we are illuminating the overall population that we are pulling out the entirety of our administrations in all the pre-tertiary schooling space - this incorporates educating and non-showing staff," the educators declared.