Workers Union of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), in Wa, have embarked on an industrial strike action.
The members of the Union are; University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), Senior Staff Association-Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) and the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU).
This follows the clandestine move by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to migrate staff of SDD-UBIDS and CKT University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS) onto the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) payroll (IPPD2) in violation of the conditions precedent in the recent agreement between the university workers unions in Ghana, CAGD, and GTEC under the order of the National Labour Commission (NLC).
Key among the conditions precedent for the CAGD’s IPPD2 migration are:
(1) IPPD2 application and add-ons to be installed at the various campuses (2) Finance directorates and personnel to be trained on the use of the IPPD2 system without the direct involvement of CAGD
(3) CAGD to undertake a three-month test run with existing payroll data, in parallel to the present payroll systems of the individual campuses so as to rectify all discrepancies, and
(4) The 2 status quo at all campuses to remain as directed by NLC until these key conditions are met and a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed between the workers unions and CAGD.
As at now, none of these has happened on the SDD-UBIDS and CTK-UTAS campuses -no installation of the IPPD2 infrastructure, no training of staff and no test run.
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