{"id":19554,"date":"2014-05-19T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19554"},"modified":"2014-05-19T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:39:23","slug":"students-unhappy-about-potag-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=19554","title":{"rendered":"Students unhappy about POTAG strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some students of the Cape Coast Polytechnic have complained about the indefinite strike by the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) and are adamant the on-going strike is adversely affecting studies and upcoming exams.<\/p>\n<p>The national association executive of POTAG announced a nationwide strike on Friday over arrears in the payment of their outstanding book and research allowance for its members.<\/p>\n<p>The book allowance of Polytechnic lecturers currently stands at $1,500 per year per lecturer, while the research component stands at GH\u00a2400.<\/p>\n<p>The strike has left many students in a fix as they cannot tell \u00a0when their lecturers will be returning from strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cWe have still not been informed when they are coming back&#8221; One told Citi News.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi News, the students pleaded with the government to intervene as they risk vacating late &#8220;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">the government will have to do something about the strike action\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">we don\u2019t know when we are starting our exams and also when we are going for vacation so it is a big problem for us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some students of the Cape Coast Polytechnic have complained about the indefinite strike by the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) and are adamant the on-going strike is adversely affecting studies and upcoming exams. The national association executive of POTAG announced a nationwide strike on Friday over arrears in the payment of their outstanding book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-19554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-invincible-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}