UTAG Strike : Member of Education Committee in Parliament Backs UTAG not to Return to Class ; Dr. Clement Apaak, a Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Education Committee, has backed the University Teachers Association of Ghana’s (UTAG) demand that they not return to the lecture halls until their demands are addressed.
According to him, the union’s decision not to call off its six-week-old strike is based on the government’s previous bad faith over similar concerns about working conditions in previous years.
UTAG has been on strike for better working conditions, but no amount of government pledges or court rulings obtained by the National Labour Commission will persuade the striking lecturers to give up.
Dr. Apaak, who is also a Member of Parliament for Builsa South, chastised the government for the ongoing standoff, which has a negative impact on students at educational institutions around the country.
The truth is that UTAG has no faith in the current arrangement and the persons they are dealing with. They do not believe that if they call off the strike, their demands will be met. Based on history, they are worried. UTAG members would like to be in the classroom teaching but they see this as the final push.
For UTAG it it’s do or die, if they are going to succeed in getting what they want and the state can do whatever they want; and they have said that if the government want to sack all of them, they are willing to be sacked and let’s see if the Ministers can go to the lecture halls and teach
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