The University of Ghana, Legon (UG) branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has rejected a proposal by government to pay its members $1,600 as research allowance. It has thus declared a strike on January 3. In a letter co-signed by the President and General Secretary Dr Samuel Nkumbaan and Prof Ransford Gyampo, […]
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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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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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Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo, the Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) writes about the ongoing strike action by UTAG and how those negotiating on behalf of government, particularly the NLC, has clearly failed and embarrassed the government in their approach to handling this matter: UTAG has been negotiating for better conditions of […]
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Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has said that the University Teachers Association of Ghana, UTAG won’t suspend its ongoing strike despite the threat from the National Labour Commission to cite the leadership Association for contempt of court. According to Prof Gyampo, the government and the NLC can imprison all […]
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The newly elected Secretary for the striking University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) Professor Ransford Gyampo says the regular meetings between the association and government have little value for their concerns. According to him, UTAG has no confidence in the ability of the national labour commission to resolve the impasse between them and the government. […]
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Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for European Studies of the University of Ghana, with over 14 years of teaching and research experience. He has recently been elected as the Secretary for the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). He has written on “Salaries and […]
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