{"id":465174,"date":"2018-02-17T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/17\/nagrat-issues-march-31-ultimatum-over-salary-arrears\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T12:51:35","slug":"nagrat-issues-march-31-ultimatum-over-salary-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/17\/nagrat-issues-march-31-ultimatum-over-salary-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"NAGRAT issues March 31 ultimatum over salary arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 17 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/48454033.295.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Carbonu Begs\" title=\"Angel Carbonu Begs\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Angel Carbonu, NAGRAT President<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518871895_354_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has given the government up to the end of March to pay the salary arrears and allowances owed its members since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Association added that it will take a strong decision in protest if the government fails to meet the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>NAGRAT in a communiqu\u00e9 copied to citifmonline.com expressed disappointment that the government had not fulfilled its promise to pay the areas which has been outstanding for about 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of March, when the issues are not addressed positively, we as a union will advise ourselves. The industrial environment wouldn\u2019t be peaceful,\u201d the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu told Citi News.<\/p>\n<p>At an earlier press conference on the matter, Angel Carbonu said, \u201cWe are owed vehicle maintenance allowances, we are also owed transfer grants, and then we are also owed transport and travel allowances. All these amount to over 50 million cedis. And there are also salary arrears of those who have been recruited into the Ghana Education Service, and they have taught for months and have not been paid for those months that they have taught. They also owe us allowances and arrears that ought to be paid, and all these we are not getting any clear indication as to government\u2019s determination to pay these monies. So once we have a situation like this, we are affected by government\u2019s ineptitude to address the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the three-point communiqu\u00e9 it issued, the teacher union also kicked against a directive by Ghana Education Service extending instructional hours in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Carbonu charged members of the Association to boycott the directive if they deem it unhelpful.<\/p>\n<p>NAGRAT has drawn the attention of successive governments to arrears owed its members, estimated to be about GH\u00a2 50 million in total.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, it put on hold a planned industrial action when the incumbent government paid part of the arrears.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 updated by: 39 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 17 February 2018 Source: citifmonline.com 2018-02-17 Angel Carbonu, NAGRAT President The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has given the government up to the end of March to pay the salary arrears and allowances owed its members since 2013. 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