The leadership of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is due to meet with Parliament’s Education Committee this week to find a solution to the standoff between the union and the government.
This comes after the Labour Division of the High Court ordered the National Labour Commission (NLC) and UTAG to return to the negotiating table for the second time.
The sides have reached an impasse on UTAG’s five-week strike. Ranking Member on the Education Committee, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe says the meeting is needed to avert the shutdown of the various public universities.
It is necessary for the committee to come into the matter because the university may shut down any moment from now. We will send them [UTAG] an invitation so that we can meet with them and listen to them and make appeals to both sides to resolve the differences quickly
UTAG has been on strike since January 10 in an attempt to persuade the government to reinstate the 2012 service conditions.
A lecturer’s Basic plus Market Premium was set at $2,084.42 in the 2012 conditions of service. The current arrangement, according to UTAG, has decreased the basic premiums of its members to $997.84.
UTAG was taken to court by the National Labour Commission, but the two were advised to return to the negotiating table.
The commission filed a lawsuit to enforce its mandate, which was ignored by public university professors across the country. The commission had already ordered UTAG to end its strike, but this order was not followed.
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