Good News To All University Students In Ghana As NUGs Call UTAG and SSA-UoG To Return To Classrooms
National Union of Ghana students have requested the University Teacher Association of Ghana (UTAG) and Senior Staff Association- UG(SSA-UoG) to return to classrooms and teach despite the current strike UTAG and SSA-UoG on 30th July registered their displeasure towards government's delay in honouring the full terms of their agreements and hinted on starting indefinite strike today, August 2nd 2021.
SSA-UoG meeting with the minister for Employment and Labour Relations ended inconclusively.
Universities senior staff in Ghana who constituted majority group in the university's staff system met Labour Relations minister for dialogue, and the meeting was inconclusive. SSA-UoG has embark industrial strike action since last month demanding for non basic allowance, market premium and pension tier 2 arrears.
Threatening to go on strike over service allowance terms is UTAG.
In the event that the government does not reinstate their working conditions, the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has vowed to resign from their position. Professor Solomon Nunoo, the president of UTAG, claims that the government's refusal to meet their demands, such as the Book and Research allowance, has a continuing impact on how they carry out their responsibilities.
UTAG-Ghana To Embark On Strike Again
Four public university labor unions have declared their intention to strike for the first time on Thursday, October 13, 2022. "This gives the employer and all stakeholders in tertiary education in Ghana one critical week to reverse the directive that seeks to negatively compromise university workers' working conditions," they said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Public university labour unions threats to stop working over working conditions
Public university labor unions, including the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), the Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH), and the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG), have given the government a one-week deadline to settle the outstanding allowance, after which they will cease providing services.
Aggrieved staff of public universities suspend intended strike after meeting with NLC
The planned strike by four worker unions at Ghana's public universities over working conditions has been postponed. The unions are the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU), Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG), and the Ghana Association of University Administration (GAUA).
Libraries to fully operate as Court injunction orders Senior Staff to end strike and resume work
On January 21, 2021, the Senior Staff Association, Universities of Ghana(SSA-UoG) announced the resumption of an indefinite strike over concerns of improvement in working conditions among other things. It is worth noting that, the services of these senior staff are very essential that when suspended would have grave effects on the students and the institutios as a whole. After this strike actions, some services which were supposed to be performed or supervised by these staff have been left unattended to. A typical
Universities' Senior Staff go on strike on Monday, August 2
The Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) has directed its members to embark on industrial strike from August 2, 2021, following government’s failure to address the concerns raised over their conditions of service. In a statement dated July 30, 2021 and signed by the National Chairman of the association, Zakaria Mohammed, it said the government failed to “respect and fulfil the agreements between both parties (the association and government) at different intervals.”