Speed up negotiations on conditions of service of Poly teachers
The Polytechnic Administrators Association of Ghana (PAAG) has appealed to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to speed up negotiations on the conditions of service for members of the association.
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The association also urged the government to act as a matter of urgency in implementing the Categories Two, Three and Four Allowances of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSS).
The appeal was contained in a nine-point resolution signed and issued by nine chairmen representing nine polytechnics and the national president of the association during its 4th Annual Delegates Conference held in WA.
The PAAG appealed to the government as a matter of urgency to resolve the impasse in the polytechnics, and added that if nothing was done within the shortest period, the PAAG might be forced to react.
The association urged the government to concretise its promise of transforming the country’s polytechnics into technical universities by 2016.
It also called for a halt in the imposition of fund managers, trustees and custodians of the Pension Scheme on their institutions and asked the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) to issue certificates and transfer monies accrued from January 2010 to date to fund managers.
The association expressed its dissatisfaction at what it described as “acts of intimidation by some persons in the Management of Polytechnics against its members in their quest to seek fair treatment”.
It noted that because of such intimidators in the system, industrial harmony had been in danger on some of the campuses.
The PAAG urged members to work hard in their respective institutions to improve productivity in tandem with the PAAG’s motto: “Service with Excellence”.
The National President of PAAG, Mr Peter Yaw Kosoe, called on the government to improve the conditions of service of polytechnic administrators for enhanced productivity.
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A Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Dr Mohammed Musheibu Alfa, said the polytechnic administrators constituted a major pillar in the polytechnic education system and their role in ensuring effective teaching and learning could not be overemphasised.
“The protracted industrial action of the PAAG is leading to the closure of our polytechnics thus, grievously affecting the 2013/2014 academic year. A similar action by the University Teachers Association of Ghana could disrupt the 2014/2015 academic year,” he said.
He said blame games, particularly on management and government, was not a solution and challenged the PAAG to go beyond identifying faults and proffer solutions to challenges to enhance efficiency and service delivery.
He appealed to organised labour to use laid-down procedures to seek redress to their grievances before calling for industrial action which in the long run, reduced productivity and worsened the already poor economic situation. — GNA