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Lawsuit against UTAG withdrawn following suspension of strike

by George Nyavor
2021-08-19
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Lawsuit against UTAG withdrawn following suspension of strike
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The National Labour Commission (NLC) has withdrawn a lawsuit it filed against the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) over a biting industrial action

The move by the NLC follows UTAG’s decision to suspend the strike that started across the country on August 2, 2021.

In court on Thursday, the Commission told the court that a deal has been brokered between UTAG and the government on Wednesday, August 18.

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The mother body for lecturers of public universities across the country has been on strike since August 2, 2021, to protest, according to UTAG, the government’s refusal to restore the conditions of service agreed upon in 2012.

The 2012 Single Spine package put entry-level lecturers on a salary of $2,084 while the current level puts lecturers’ salaries around $900.

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The strike by UTAG has severely affected academic and some non-academic work at the various tertiary campuses.

The NLC was in court challenging the legality of UTAG’s strike, But UTAG had remained resolute, accusing the NLC of bad faith in its dealings with the teacher union.

In Court on Thursday, the Lawyer for the NLC, Yehoda Kotey, informed the Court about the memorandum of After the MoU, UTAG suspended its strike and the NLC prayed the Court to strike out its action as withdrawn.

Justice Frank Rockson Aboadwe, on the prayers of the NLC struck out the suit.

The parties are now expected to return to negotiations on market premium, book allowances among other concerns of UTAG.

Following the deliberations, the parties have agreed as follows:

1. That both parties (Government and UTAG) agree that there is a need to get back to the negotiating table from the week beginning Monday, August 23, 2021.

2. That a road for negotiation, as agreed at previous consultative meetings between the parties, which imposes a one-month mandatory period beginning 23rd August 2021 for negotiations, shall be signed by both parties;

3. That whilst the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations in conjunction with the NLC is taking steps to discontinue all legal processes against UTAG, UTAG will also take steps to suspend the ongoing strike action;

4. That government acknowledges the need to improve the working conditions of University Teachers and shall treat this will all the seriousness it deserves.

UTAG members have been on strike since the beginning of August 2021 because they want the government to restore the conditions of service agreed upon in 2012 which they said was far better than the current situation.

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