The University of Ghana (UG) faces disruption to academic and administrative activities as the Senior Staff Association and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union(TEWU) have threatened to lay down their tools.
This is in reaction to management’s failure to pay their arrears of Interim Market Premium.
According to the group, all efforts to get the management to pay the areas from 2010 to 2018 have proven futile.
They have, therefore, given the university until December 13, 2023, to pay the arrears.
In a letter to the Vice Chancellor, the unions expressed their disappointment and formally served notice of the impending strike.
The National Chairman of the Senior Staff Association, Isaac Donkoh, told the media the strike action would compel the university management to settle the arrears.
“The court ordered that the university should pay the market premium to the staff, but we have been battling with them since 2018, and they are still not paying us. We have taken the matter to the National Labour Commission, and about three different timelines were given, and they missed all three timelines.
“For now, we have no other option because our members are chasing us, and we have to listen to them because this money ought to have been paid long ago, and the value of that money is already gone, and so we have given them up to December 13 to pay us, and if nothing is done, we are going to lay down our tools,” Mr Donkoh said.