There has been indications from many quarters that Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo has betrayed his people. This is as a result of him announcing the decision of National Executive Committee (NEC) of UTAG to suspend their several weeks of strike to demand for better conditions of service from the government of Ghana. In response, Professor […]
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The National Executive Committee of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has indicated that its members will from Friday, October 8, lay down their tools. According to the Association, the decision was reached after the committee held its 20th Congress following discussions with the government on Monday, September 26, to discuss its wages and […]
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The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has expressed dissatisfaction with negotiations with government so far on members’ conditions of service. According to UTAG, the employer has shown bad faith since the negotiations began a month ago. The university lecturers suspended a strike action, triggered on Monday, August 2, 2021, to return to the negotiation table. “During […]
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The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is likely to lift the suspension on its recent strike, 3news.com has gathered. According to reports, there has not been any headway after a one-month negotiation period was agreed upon by parties. 3news.com gathers the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, fails to attend meetings as he constantly delegates other officials to […]
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The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has blamed delays in postings of prospective service prospective on the recent strike by the University Teachers Association (UTAG). According to the Deputy Executive Director at the National Service Secretariat, Gifty Oware Aboagye, the protracted UTAG strike made it impossible for next batch of graduates to complete […]
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The University of Ghana Branch Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Prof. Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo says teachers have been cheated for too long and it is a discomfort he wants an end to. According to him he wants Ghana’s constitution to recognize the hard work of teachers just as “Article 71 […]
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Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo the Secretary for the University Teachers Association of Ghana writes about the current strike action by the association. It reads: We were negotiating in perpetuity with no end in sight. We were talking about our poor conditions of service with authorities, and no one was giving us the needed attention. Some […]
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The High Court’s Labour Division, 1, has advised the National Labour Commission (NLC), and the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), to settle the stalemate over their industrial action out of Court. UTAG, since the declaration of its indefinite strike on August 2, has consistently accused the National Labour Commission of bad faith in serving […]
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The Labour Court 1 Division of the High Court has awarded a cost of GH¢3,000 against the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) for what the Court says was a waste of its time. The Court convened on Monday to hear an injunction application brought against the teacher union by the National Labour Commission over […]
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Professor Ransford Gyampo, newly elected Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana, UTAG, has averred that deaths don’t result from their industrial action unlike in the case of doctors. He has also reiterated a call to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene in UTAG’s impasse with the National Labour Commission, NLC, in order […]
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