NAGRAT directs regional executives to call off strike
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), has directed all regional executives to call off their strike.
The directive comes in the wake of events after the mother body, last week, directed its members to begin an indefinite strike in protest against delays in the payment of their salary arrears by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.
In response to the directive, NAGRAT leaders in the Greater Accra and Central regions laid down their tools on Monday and Wednesday respectively after accusing government of failing to meet with them to agree on a road map about the payment of their 21-month salary arrears, 13 of which is for the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) and the remaining for the current base pay adjustment.
However, on Friday the Public Service Joint Negotiation Committee concluded negotiations on the payment of salary arrears accruing from the SSSS implementation in the Public Service. The Committee agreed that the accumulated salary arrears for 2010 and 2011 should be paid by the end of July 2012.
An agreement was reached for two months’ salary arrears to be paid by the end of the month October, three months’ salary arrears to be paid by December 2011, another three months’ salary arrears to be paid by February 2012 and another two month’s salary arrears to be paid by March 2012.
It was also agreed that another three months’ salary arrears would be paid by April and May 2012, whilst another two months’ salary arrears would be paid by June and July 2012.
Accordingly, a statement signed by the General Secretary of NAGRAT, calling back the teachers, stated that, “following conclusion of negotiations by the Public Sector Joint Standing Negotiating Committee, the National Association of NAGRAT calls on all regional chairmen of the association to call of their strike action and return to their normal duties.”
