{"id":62177,"date":"2014-11-05T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=62177"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T10:01:26","slug":"strike-is-off-but-our-demands-still-hold-gnat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=62177","title":{"rendered":"Strike is off but our demands still hold &#8211; GNAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says the suspension of their strike with other labour unions does not mean they will stop fighting to get their demands met.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve labour unions on October 22 emarked on <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/17\/8-labour-unions-to-strike-over-pension-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>an industrial action<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in\u00a0protest of government\u2019s failure to pay their tier two pension funds into a private account.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/31\/court-orders-unions-to-call-off-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>ex parte motion<\/strong><\/span><\/a> secured by the government last Friday forced the unions to<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/04\/labour-calls-off-strike-with-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> call off their strike<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;eIum0UTGBD0Y1dkIODcmRJ8MA9yjMBCy&#8221;]The General Secretary of GNAT, Mawunyo V.V.K. Damanya in an interview on <strong>Eyewitness News \u00a0<\/strong>said the unions are only obeying the court injunction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going back to work \u00a0but \u00a0it does not mean the negotiation process should not go on. If we find out the process is not getting anywhere, we will follow the striking process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Damenya <a style=\"text-decoration:none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/vhealthportal.com\/product\/phentermine\/\">http:\/\/vhealthportal.com\/product\/phentermine\/<\/a> stressed that workers will strive to ensure that public sector workers who retire are given the pensions due them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of the labour workers who will be retiring depends on the type of pension they will receive when they finally leave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further called on workers to &#8220;look\u00a0over their shoulders&#8221; although they are resuming work, to ensure government does the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u00a0Labour Relations Analyst, Austin Gammeh says he is confident that both the government and the labour unions will be able to settle the matter within 24-hours if they drop the old approach of bargaining over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended that the two sides should work behind the scenes to address their concerns because industrial relations\u00a0 have never succeeded in the view of the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Patricia Conteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says the suspension of their strike with other labour unions does not mean they will stop fighting to get their demands met. Twelve labour unions on October 22 emarked on an industrial action in\u00a0protest of government\u2019s failure to pay their tier two pension funds into a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20360,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-62177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62177","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}