The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says it has information that the Breton Woods institutions are putting pressure on the government to halt the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure. Members of the association have vowed to lay down their tools if the government does not meet the December deadline to migrate teachers onto the new pay policy. Addressing a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, the Greater Accra regional chairman of NAGRAT, Patrick Agboyibor said the association is unhappy with the “snail pace” at which the government is implementing the new pay policy. “NAGRAT has made it clear over and again our unhappiness about the snail pace at which the Fair Wages and Salary Commission has been working to resolve these problems. “Our worries became worse when information started filtering that the Breton Woods institutions were pushing government to truncate the implementation process. “This was further given credence when an honorable Deputy Minister of Finance announced the postponement of SSS implementation to 2011, though the deputy Minister later came to deny it,” he said. He noted that teachers will even be worse off even if they are migrated onto the SSSS structure without certain remedies. “Our second and major worry is that in spite of all the noise if teachers are migrated today onto the SSSS, we will be worse off to the extent that over 80 percent of personnel in education, that is non-tertiary education will have serious conversion differences,” he noted. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana