On Monday members of the University of Ghana wing of UTAG voted to suspend their strike, however they will require a majority vote of their eight-member association to end the national strike that has crippled public universities.
Dr. Walter Affo, Secretary to the Legon UTAG branch told Joy FM the wing cannot act unilaterally and return to the lecture halls and so will wait to see what the entire association decides on Wednesday, explaining that their decision to suspend the strike is borne out of goodwill.
“It is goodwill. The president has set up a commission to look into the matter, Labour Commission has appealed to us, the executive committee of the University of Ghana has appealed to us so we are just doing this on goodwill. We want to suspend the action and we want to see that the government is able to honour their promise to resolve the matter within the shortest possible time. So it is based on goodwill,” he said.
But Dr. Affo also hinted that per the University of Ghana statutes, the university will have to shut if the strike persisted over 21 days and that the branch has decided to end the strike to avoid that situation.
UTAG is composed of the University of Ghana, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Mines and Technology, the Ghana Institute of Journalism, the Institute of Professional Studies, the University for Development Studies, the University of Cape Coast.
Members of the association have since October 1 been on strike to back demands for unpaid allowances and pay rise.
Story by Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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