The leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana has indicated that it will resume its strike on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
According to the association, it will resume its industrial action in protest of deplorable conditions of service on the said date.
It explained that the decision follows the government’s failure to address the concerns of its members after they called off a similar action earlier this year.
A letter addressed to the National Labour Commission on 7th May, 2021 indicated that the industrial strike is “as a result of the government’s decision to flout the NLC 31st March 2021 deadline directives”.
The group suspended an earlier strike on February 9, 2021 after the National Labor Commission secured a court order against the action.
The group was demanding the payment of Tier II pensions of members (2010-2016), payment of market premium and non-basic allowance, and finalization of negotiations on their conditions of service by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.
Subsequent talks between government and the association led to a March 31, 2021 deadline for the resolution of their grievances.
But in a statement dated May 6, 2021, and addressed to the Executive Secretary of the National Labor Commission, the SSA-UoG said government has failed to hold its end of the bargain.
National President of the Association, Zakaria Mohammed who signed the statement said, “all efforts made to engage with the relevant stakeholders to address our concerns have yielded no results”.
