News Line! University teachers across Ghana are this morning, Monday, August 1, 2013, beginning a nationwide industrial action to protest unpaid market premium. An emergency meeting held Wednesday night with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) failed to avert the strike. Last night the deputy minister in charge of tertiary education, Okudzeto Ablakwa assured university teachers their outstanding premiums will be settled by Friday. However the President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr Anthony Simmons, said the promise came rather too late and could not stop this morning’s strike. He insisted that "if the money hits the accounts we will take a decision" but until that is done Dr Simmons maintained "we still stand by the industrial action".
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:23:12 +0000