The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has directed members to withdraw all teaching and related activities on campus beginning today, Monday, August 02, this year.
The decision to embark on an industrial strike, according to the NEC, was borne out of the government’s refusal to heed to calls by the Association to improve the worsening conditions of service of the university teachers.
According to Dr. Eric K. K. Abavare, the National Secretary, the strike, specifically on negotiation of their conditions of service which was started some two years ago, had overly been delayed with no end in sight.
At a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, the National President of UTAG, Professor Charles Marfo, urged the government to meet the union’s demands “for the sake of industrial harmony and not to compound the already jeopardized academic calendar of the public universities.”
UTAG wants the 2012 conditions of service to peg the Basic plus Market Premium of a lecturer at $2,084.42.
It says the current arrangement has reduced its members’ basic premiums to $997.84.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
