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THE TEACHERS and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Ghana, has decried government\u2019s failure to pay their members Continuous Professional Development (CPD) allowance, a situation they describe as \u2018naked discrimination.\u2019<\/p>\n
According to the leadership of the union, \u201cTEWU members have been sidelined in the payment of the CPD allowance, whereas\u00a0our\u00a0teaching counterparts have received two tranches already,\u00a0since the package was announced by Government in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Minister for Education,\u00a0in 2020,\u00a0announced\u00a0the approval of the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) allowance to\u00a0both\u00a0teaching and non-teaching\u00a0staff\u00a0of the GES namely GH\u00a21,200 for teachers; and GH\u00a2600 for non-teaching staff.<\/p>\n
Addressing a press conference on behalf of the union in Accra yesterday, General Secretary of TEWU, Mark Dankyira Korankye, disclosed that since the announcement of the payment\u00a0of the CPD\u00a0allowance, no member of TEWU had received their payment.<\/p>\n
Leadership, he noted, \u201chad been\u00a0following up to ensure that our members\u00a0benefit from it\u201d but \u201call our efforts have not yielded any results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Dankyira disclosed that in making payments of the allowance, professional teachers received GH\u00a21,200 each while non-professional teachers received GH\u00a2800, but the non-teaching staff were \u201ccompletely left out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo make matters worse, in March last year, the President, in the State of the Nation\u2019s Address, announced that he had \u00a0paid CPD allowances to both teaching and non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service. This announcement by the President caused a lot of agitation among our members. \u00a0If payment of this allowance has been made, why is it that non-teaching staff have not received any?<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we continued to dialogue to have the allowance for 2020 paid, in November 2021 again, teachers were paid at the exclusion of the non-teaching staff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Strike Action<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Dankyira also made known that, \u201cAt the last National Executive Council meeting held in December 2021, it was resolved among others, that if by the close of the year 2021, the CPD allowance\u00a0has not been paid to the non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service then, as schools re-open for the last phase of the second semester of 2020\/2021 academic year, our members will withdraw our services to push\u00a0home\u00a0our demand for the payment of this CPD allowance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe, therefore, wish to inform the government and its agencies, parents\u00a0and the Ghanaian\u00a0public that as schools re-open tomorrow,\u00a0January 5, 2022 [today],\u00a0they should not expect any of the non-teaching staff to be at post. These would include, but not limited to the\u00a0domestic bursars, matrons,\u00a0cooks, pantry hands, labourers, cleaners, administrators, accountants,\u00a0librarians, logistics and supply officers,\u00a0internal auditors,\u00a0etc,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n By Nii Adjei Mensahfio<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE TEACHERS and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Ghana, has decried government\u2019s failure to pay their members Continuous Professional Development (CPD) allowance, a situation they describe as \u2018naked discrimination.\u2019 According to the leadership of the union, \u201cTEWU members have been sidelined in the payment of the CPD allowance, whereas\u00a0our\u00a0teaching counterparts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}