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Labor expert, Austin Gamey
Labor expert Austin Gamey called for the National Labor Commission (NLC) to be spared the blame for the deadlock between the Association of University Teachers of Ghana (UTAG) and the government.
Austin explained that often the Commission can be overwhelmed with thousands of working cases that will be difficult to deal with each case as one would expect.
He shared this opinion during an interview with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning show broadcast on e.TV Ghana and Happy98.9FM.
“It is unfortunate that the Commission has not been proactive in this case, as it is one of the key tasks given to them, but their officers may not be up to the task. They are overwhelmed. With a lot of cases out there, they can only tackle one at a time ”.
The labor expert revealed that Ghana’s laws allow employers and workers to take advantage of other mediation and negotiation services outside of the Labor Board. However, many Ghanaians decide not to use these services; which, in the long term, weighs on the NLC.
He advised: “We are supposed to use mediators, facilitators and arbitrators. We have two major laws that assume that Ghana is too focused on a one-way type of nation and management systems. The laws have allowed people to use other means. If you want to go to the NLC you go there, but if there are 1000 cases there you form a queue ”.
The Ghana University Teachers Association (UTAG) suspended its strike and also agreed to return to the negotiating table.
This follows an emergency meeting its leaders had with the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations and the National Labor Commission (NLC) on Wednesday, August 18, 2021.
The two parts [Government and UTAG] also decided to stop the legal proceedings concerning the prolonged strike and gave themselves a period of one month to resolve all outstanding issues.
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