Ofosu Asamoah, the executive secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), has urged university authorities to compel lecturers to resume lectures.
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has been on strike since 10 January to demand better conditions of service.
According to the association, the government has breached the timelines agreed for resolution, hence their industrial action.
The NLC declared the strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) as illegal.
However, a statement from the UG chapter of UTAG, indicated that the association remains resolute to continue its industrial action until their issues are resolved.
Speaking with Kweku Nhyira-Addo on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Tuesday (18 January) Ofosu Asamoah urged managers of the various university campuses to take responsibility and ensure their teachers return to work.
He said: “These are staff of the university. At the universities are managers, you have the vice chancellors who are at the helm of affairs and then we have the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission; these are people you have engaged to work and they say that they will not work. The first action or option is for the managers of the universities who have been told that what your staff is doing is illegal to take a decision or else the situation will continue.
…Managers of the universities must now take action but if they sit down there expecting that National Labour Commission said is illegal, they have a role to play and that is where the charge should come from now,” he stated.
On Tuesday (18 January), the government was said to be in a meeting with Vice Chancellors Ghana to find a solution regarding the demands of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
Bright Wireku Brobbey, a deputy minister of employment and labour relations who spoke to Beatrice Adu on the Big Bulletin on (18 January), said it was necessary to engage Vice Chancellors Ghana to explain the government’s position.
Vice Chancellors Ghana is expected to meet with the leadership of UTAG to find a solution to the impasse.
Nicholas Brown
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