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COLA strike: Govt to meet coordinated work on July 12
The Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations will meet individuals from coordinated work for the second time on July 12, 2022.
The gathering, as indicated by a delivery endorsed by the Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, will be utilized to examine the interest for the 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) by Organized Labor.
The Ministry showed that the July 12 gathering will be a continuation of a crisis meeting hung on Friday, July 8.
The gathering was gone to by the Ministers of Employment and Labor Relations, Finance, Education and National Security on one hand; and Organized Labor then again.
COLA Strike: Government to meet coordinated work for additional talks on July 12
That's what the assertion noticed "government has observed the interest by Organized Labor for a 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) in the radiance of the ongoing monetary circumstances winning in the country."
As indicated by the public authority, "it is focused on connecting with Organized Labor to track down enduring answer for same."
The Ministry in this way spoke to the striking educator associations to cancel their modern activity.
On Monday, July 4, 2022 four instructor associations proclaimed an endless cross country strike over requests for the installment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
The associations, containing the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT), are requesting that 20% of their fundamental compensation be paid to them.
They put their modern activity on government's inability to pay the COLA, which they contend might have assisted with alleviating the effect of the increasing cost for most everyday items.
However, after a June 30 cutoff time was depleted, the laborers have removed their administrations, both in and outside the study hall.
In the mean time, School Authorities have been constrained to depend on National Service Personnel (NSP) without a trace of the striking educators.
As indicated by the representative for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng, the utilization of NSP is important for an emergency course of action carried out to moderate the impact of the strike.
"The alternate course of action, I am mindful that National Service Personnel are at post and they are helping along with the overseers of training, both at the local and the region levels with some school Management," he said.
He expressed that the Ministry is attempting to determine the issue for the instructors to continue their posts.
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