Apply recommendations from the LMS simply by December 2021 or encounter our wrath – UTAG to Gov’t

The particular University Teachers Association associated with Ghana (UTAG) has known as on the government to ensure the conclusion and implementation of results of the 2021 Labour Marketplace Survey (LMS) by Dec 2021. According to the Association, failing of the government to put into action the LMS will push the Association to recommend itself and continue using its strike. This was contained in the statement issued by the Organization. These threats come right after UTAG explained that even though it signed a Memorandum associated with understanding to call away its earlier strike motion, government has not fulfilled the part of the MoU. To the University or college Teachers, Government especially the particular Finance Minister has disrespected them as he has failed to go to the various meetings he known as and has always been represented simply by people with no authority to make sure that their demands are fulfilled. In a recent letter simply by Prof. Gyampo, he pointed out that the Association will want to listen to that their demands are usually spelt out clearly within the 2022 budget which will to become read to Parliament upon November 17, 2021. Look over Statement Here UTAG/NAT/2021/IM-003 11TH NOVEMBER, 2021 COMMUNIQUÉ At the fourth quarter meeting kept on Thursday, 11th Nov 2021 at the University associated with Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), the National Executive Panel (NEC) of UTAG evaluated and examined the promises passed by the various campuses of public Universities within Ghana following the signing from the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the 6th October, 2021 to, among others, suspend the strike action indefinitely. Right after extensive deliberations, NEC recognized the government-proposed research allocation of US$1, 600. 00 per year, through a majority choice, constituted its statutory along with other non-statutory committees, including the discussions committee that gives representation to any or all member campuses, and solved that: • Government need to make sure the completion and execution of findings of the 2021 Labour Market Survey (LMS) by December 2021; • The recommendations of the LMS must not make the University Instructor worse off. Rather, this must include proposals that will improve the salary of the University or college Teacher above the 2013 entry point level; • Information regarding the LMS must be posted by the Fair Wages plus Salaries Commission (FWSC) towards the National Secretariat of UTAG by the end of December 2021 for onward communication to any or all Branches of the Association; and• If government, for whatever reason, does not implement recommendations from the LMS by December 2021, UTAG will embark on a countrywide industrial action in The month of january 2022. The NEC associated with UTAG calls on many University Teachers in Ghana to remain calm and usa as it marshals every technique and effort to maintain the fight for better Circumstances of Service for users. Prof Solomon Nunoo – National PresidentDr Asare Asante-Annor – National SecretarySource: MyNewsGh. com/ 2021
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