The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) will today, February 21, hold an emergency meeting to evaluate their ongoing industrial action.

A statement issued by the Association’s National Secretary, Dr. Asare Asante-Annor, on Friday, February 18, indicated that the planned meeting will take place at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) at 4:00pm.

This follows earlier meetings between the leadership of UTAG, Parliament’s Education Committee, the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the Education Minister and the Labour Minister last week.

The Association is, therefore, expected to initiate processes to suspend its ongoing strike at today’s meeting.

Injunction

On Tuesday, February 15, the Labour Division of the Accra High Court placed an injunction on the strike by the university lecturers.

The order from the Court follows an appeal by the National Labour Commission (NLC) for an interlocutory injunction to suspend the strike by UTAG while negotiations continue.

The NLC dragged UTAG to court after attempts to have UTAG call off its strike failed. The lecturers are expected to halt the strike until the Court determines the substantive application by the NLC.

UTAG’s demands

UTAG wants government to restore their 2012 conditions of service, which pegged the monthly income of entry-level lecturers at $2,084.

The Association has complained that the current arrangement has reduced its members’ basic premiums to $997.84.

UTAG has been on strike since January 10, 2022, over government’s failure to review their conditions of service since 2017.

Students continue to suffer the repercussions as the lecturers have refused to back down on their demands.