Mrs Irene Duncan-Adanusa, General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged members of the Association to brace themselves up for tough times in 2012. “Looking at the global financial crisis, things are not going to be easy for us as a nation and that trickles down to us as an Association”. She gave the hint at the launch in Ho of the maiden edition of “The Volta Teacher” a magazine produced by the Volta Regional Secretariat of Association. The 36-page magazine would come out twice a year to educate and inform teachers and the public on issues affecting education and teachers and GNAT’s activities. Mrs Duncan-Adanusa said the situation in 2012 would require leaders of GNAT “to understand these issues to put us in a better stead to educate our constituents whenever the need arises’. She said the Association needed to continue dialoguing among its members and examine issues critically with a view to fashioning out what would be best for the Association. Mrs Duncan-Adanusa said decisions on the base pay and relativity issues in relation to the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) “are very critical for labour stability next year”. She called for the correction of mistakes arising out of the payment of the Single Spine salary arrears to avoid disaffection among its members. “The lingering question of the implementation of the Category 2 and 3 allowances has to be solved without any further delay by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission,” she said.