Four worker unions in the public universities from today [Monday, October 17] begin industrial action.
The action is to demand better conditions of service.
According to them, the strike has become necessary due to their employer’s failure to pay their some allowance agreed upon.
“However, the Employer failed to present the terms of payment for the Vehicle Maintenance and Off-Campus Allowances, which are the main issues in contention, as directed by the NLC,” the unions said in a press statement issued on Sunday.
According to them, the government instead suggested the formation of a 10-member committee to address only the Off-Campus Allowance.
“The leaders of the four (4) Labour Unions rejected the ‘suggestion’ and rather pushed for an enforcement of the 2022 adjusted fuel ex-pump rate of GH¢10.99, thus, the meeting ended in a stalemate.”
The unions in question 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 Administrators (GAUA).
They had suspended an earlier strike threat after meeting with the National Labour Commission.
But following the meeting, the unions insist the government has not met its side of the bargain.
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