The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has rejected the recent 4 per cent salary increment for public sector workers.
Several other unions, including the Trades Union Congress (TUC), had earlier rejected same and demanded a review to reflect the growing income gap between Article 71 officeholders and ordinary government workers.
This comes after the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) embarked on a strike on August 2, due to the government’s refusal to take immediate steps in addressing the worsening condition of service of its members.
UTAG is demanding the restoration of a 2012 Single Spine Salary Structure agreement to see entry-level lecturers earn the cedi equivalent of $2,084 monthly.
Following the rejection of the 4 per cent increment by the workers, the President of GNAT, Ms Philipa Larsen, addressing members of the Association at Koforidua, called on President Akufo-Addo to “initiate a process of setting up a commission to look at salary levels of public sector workers in the country.”
“We are calling on the President; otherwise, there would be no peace, and the country would become ungovernable,” she warned.
According to her, “the current system of remuneration in the public sector is not fair; it favours some categories of office holders in the public service.”
She added that the Association will not sit idle to watch such things go on in the country, especially to public workers.
Meanwhile, the National Labour Commission says it has secured an injunction directing striking lecturers in the country’s public universities to return to work. But UTAG says it will not call off the strike until their demands are met.
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