UE TEACHERS RESCIND DECISION TO WEAR RED BANDS (D/G, Monday, June 15, 2009. PAGE 14)

TEACHERS in the Upper East Region have rescinded their decision to wear red bands to work as a warning to the government to expedite action on the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
In an interview with the Daily Graphic at Bolgatanga, the Regional Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr Linus Cofie Attey, explained that the decision followed assurances from the government that the SSSS would be implemented in January, next year.
“Following our press conference, we were called to Accra for a meeting by the leadership of GNAT and it was at that meeting that a decision was taken for us to hold on as steps were being taken by the government for the implementation of the SSSS”, he said.
Mr Attey urged all teachers in the region to exercise restraint and go about their normal duties while the government took measures to have the policy implemented.
On Monday, June 1, 2009, the leadership of GNAT in the region announced that the teachers had decided to were red bands to work to express their frustration at what they termed “The feet dragging on the part of the government in the implementation of the SSSS”.
The teachers, therefore, threatened that any further delay in solving the salary issues would lead to another action that was yet to be determined.