Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Tuesday served notice that unionised staff of the Ghana Education Service (GES) would take steps necessary to seek redress to their grievances if government failed to address them at the end of this month.
A resolution the Union adopted at the end of its Regional Delegates Conference in Accra urged the government to correct the anomalies in the GES salary scales and that the debate on the National Wage Policy should be started without delay.
The resolution dated 14 May, this year and signed by Fred Amasagba and Edward Essel, Chairman and Secretary respectively of the union said the government should bear the full medical expenses of the workers of GES instead of the 25,000 cedis annual medical refund and should as well institute a Living Wage in the country.
It urged government to find "every means possible to settle the dispute in Dagbon without further delay because it was affecting the lives of the people in Agriculture, Education and Sports sectors. The resolution empowered the union to increase its membership welfare fund of ?1,000 per member to ?5,000 to enable more contributors to borrow from it.
