The striking Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana’s National Executive Committee has decided to call off the strike.
As a result, the association’s National Chairman, Zakaria Mohammed, has urged members to return to work on Monday, June 14, 2021, without further delay.
This move followed a productive discussion held by the association’s leadership on Wednesday with the National Labour Commission and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.
Mr. Zakaria Mohammed said that they intend to have resolved all of their issues by July 9, 2021.
“We had deliberations with the National Labour Commission and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission. We have agreed to resolve all the outstanding issues from June 30, and it is expected to end latest by July 9, so there will be no outstanding concerns responsible for the strike we had embarked on. So we want to tell our members that in principle the strike is off today so work will resume on Monday.”
On May 18, 2021, the union called an indefinite strike due to the government’s inability to pay its members’ Tier 2 pension payments.
Members of the association are also requesting that market premium and non-basic allowance be awarded, as well as the completion of discussions on their service conditions.
The National Labour Commission and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) were forced to meet with them on June 9 to discuss their issues.
During the strike, the organization stated that certain university administrations had resorted to “vigorous intimidation and threat techniques against some of its striking members, with the express objective of coercing and creating fear and panic amongst its rank and file,” according to a statement.
The group warned that if the practice continued, it might “possibly destabilize the industrial harmony inside the country’s public universities.”
Source: CITINEWSROOM
