The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has blamed the current strike by the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) on the National Labour Commission, for refusing to live up to its founding documents. NUGS recalled in a release issued on Tuesday that, when members of GAUA embarked on their earlier strike in the month of May 2012, the leadership of the NUGS met with the management of Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) and pointed out to the latter that it is together with the NLC, engaging in an illegality by negotiating with GAUA leadership. “Our stand was premised on the fact that; the Ghana Association of University Administrators is not a legal union based on the dictates of the Labor Act 651, 2003 that talk about the procedure of legalizing a labor union”, the statement noted. The students’ body said “if GAUA has resumed its strike it is as result of the inaction on the part of the National Labor Commission (NLC) that is refusing to live up to its founding documents. For the Commission to declare GAUA’s May strike as illegal and failed to take the necessary punitive measures to stall future occurrence, emboldens some of these institutions to strike the more”. “The students of Ghana have gone through enough punishment this year and need not have to suffer again for someone else’s inaction”, the release stressed. NUGS has therefore called on the NLC to do the noble thing by following the letter and spirit of the Labor Act 651 and stop “the hide and seek” game which is affecting students who have to graduate in the various universities. It said the industrial actions are creating challenges with regard to students’ access to attestation letters, certificates, transcripts and general documents “that hold students lives”.