CoE Non-Teaching Strike: Don’t pay kitchen staff fee -TTAG to students

CoE Non-Teaching Strike: Don’t pay kitchen staff fee – TTAG to students as the impact of the strike begin to hit management of the 46 Colleges of Education.

The government has not been in the good books of teacher trainees in recent times due to the delay in the payment of trainee allowances. The worrying new development is that teacher trainees are being asked to pay for the cost of casual workers to cook meals for the trainees as a result of the strike action initiated by the non-teaching staff in the various public Colleges of Education.

CoE Non-Teaching Strike: Don’t pay kitchen staff fee -TTAG cautions students

The caution came from The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) after information reached its desk that the school authorities in the 46 public Colleges of Education were demanding trainees to pay extra unofficial money towards the services of cooks for the school while the strike action continues.

ATTAG has also released a statement indicating Teacher Trainees are being coaxed to pay for the services of private cooks due to the unavailability of kitchen staff and other non-academic staff, which led to the suspension of teaching and learning and all other activities on the 46 campuses.

The released statement indicated that “Students in some Colleges of Education have been asked to feed themselves until the strike is over. Authorities in some Colleges are asking students to pay casual workers because management has no money to pay them”.

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One of the grounds on which TTAG cautioned students not to pay for the services of the casual cooks was health-related. All kitchen staff are required by law to go through thorough health screening and be issued a certificate of being fit enough and free from any disease before they can provide kitchen services in any school in Ghana. Should the health status of the casual workers cause any challenges, the rippling effects could be worrying.

“The leadership of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has taken notice with grieve concerns of the industrial action to be undertaken by Colleges of Education No Teaching Staff Association of Ghana (CENSTAG).

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Non-teaching staff in the government Colleges of Education Monday commence a nationwide industrial action to register their displeasure over the non-payment of some allowances. The April 11, 2022, industrial action meant all non-teaching staff including kitchen staff were not going to be available to carry out their duties for the smooth running of the 46 colleges of education.