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The newly elected secretary of the striking University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Professor Ransford Gyampo, says regular meetings between the association and the government are of little value to their concerns.
According to him, UTAG has no confidence in the ability of the national labor commission to resolve the impasse between it and the government.
“What is happening among politicians is they tell their supporters to tighten their belts while they loosen it and they eat,” he told Francis Abban on Morning Starr. Wednesday.
He added: “We have been negotiating since 2012 and today I heard that there was a meeting to discuss a roadmap for the negotiation. They are not going to negotiate. I find it laughable… University professors don’t eat up meetings and negotiations. We’ve been in these negotiations for almost ten years, how many more years do you want us to negotiate? Tell us so that we tell the members of UTAG so that we know that we are negotiating in perpetuity ”.
UTAG launched indefinite industrial action on Tuesday over poor conditions of service and the government’s inability to resolve long-standing grievances.
The NLC says, however, that the action is irregular, especially since the association’s management is still negotiating with the government on their demands.
The NLC obtained a 10-day interlocutory injunction on the UTAG strike.
The 13 member universities of the Association of University Teachers of Ghana (UTAG) unanimously agreed to continue their strike despite the lawsuits brought against it by the National Labor Commission (NLC).
The group said in a statement on Monday: “Following the stalling of negotiations with the government on our terms of service (CdS), which resulted in our declaration of a national withdrawal from teaching and related activities among public universities members, all local executives have been tasked by the National Executive Committee (NEC) to convene an emergency meeting to solicit members’ views on the way forward.
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