The Senior Staff Association and the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union at the University of Ghana have threatened to go on strike over their unpaid arrears.
According to the association, all efforts to retrieve their money from the school’s management have proved futile from 2010 to 2018.
The National Chairman of the association, Isaac Donkor, during an interview with Accra-based Citi TV, said members of the association have hope that, immediately, they embark on a strike, the university’s management will be triggered to pay their money.
He stated that the association had petitioned the National Labour Commission and the school’s management was given about three timeliness, yet, they failed to abide by that.
“The court ordered that the university should pay the market premium to the staff but we have been battling with them since 2018 and they are still not paying us and we have taken the matter to the National Labour Commission and about three different timelines were given and they missed all the three timelines.”
“For now, we have no other option because our members are chasing us, and we have to listen to them because this money ought to have been paid long ago and the value of that money is already gone and so we have given them up to December 13 to pay us and if nothing is done, we are going to lay down our tools,” he added.
