THE Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Koforidua Polytechnic has appealled to the government to intervene and end the current strike action being undertaken by the Polytechnic Teachers’ Association of Ghana (POTAG).
That, according to the students’ body, would make it possible for their teachers to return to the classroom for academic work to resume.
POTAC at the beginning of the month started a sit-down strike in protest at what they said was the failure of the government through the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and other stakeholders, to involve the association in the negotiation of the conditions of service for its members, which expired in 2008.
At a press conference in Koforidua, the President of the SRC, Mr Herman Sintim-Aboagye said the strike action was disrupting academic work with its attendant negative effects on the students, and as such, the government must immediately come in to address the issue.
Mr Sintim Aboagye enumerated a number of instances when POTAG drew the attention of the government to the issue with no positive response and that the SRC was dissatisfied about the manner the government and the Labour Commission were handling the issue and called for an immediate action to resolve the matter.
At a certain period of the press conference, which was attended by a large number of students, it became emotional when some of the students expressed their views on the matter, indicating that the government was not paying attention to the needs of POTAG members unlike university lecturers whose grievances were always dealt with promptly although the two groups belonged to the same category of academicians and technocrats.
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