The Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU), has urged the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC), to prevail upon Vice Chancellors to effect correction on disparities of salaries between junior and senior staff of the public universities.
Making the call at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, Mr Ralph Apaaya, General Secretary of TEWU, said the distortions were as a result of the implementation of the Single Spine Structure.
He said several attempts to get both the Vice Chancellors and FWSC to address the issue had proved futile.
Mr Apaaya said, for example, a sub-committee was set up comprising Human Resource and Finance Directors of the Universities and the Union to look at the salary distortions and disparities within the Public Universities and to find ways of bridging the gap between Senior and Junior Staffs as a result of the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure.
The committee submitted its report to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission on February 27.
Based upon the Committee’s Report, the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission convened a meeting of the three parties to discuss the report and reach a decision on the distortions and disparities.
The outcome was that FWSC should write to the Universities' managements to enable them implement the decisions reached at the meeting, and also to bridge the gap between the junior and senior staffs of the Public Universities.
Mr Apaaya said: “Fair Wages and Salaries Commission have failed to do what we have all agreed to do. We think Fair Wages and Salaries commission have acted in bad faith”.
He said the union and the Public Universities Management have carried out every instruction and demand by FWSC, but they had failed to implement their part.
“We therefore wish to state that FWSC has not been fair to us, as far as our grievances are concerned,” he added.
Mr Apaaya gave the ultimatum that if by December 31 the salaries distortions had not been addressed, and something happened, the FWSC should be held responsible.
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