A two-week strike by the Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) was put on hold since the government was not providing its worthy members with car maintenance allowances.
Despite meeting with the government on Friday, February 9, TEWU-GH on Monday, February 12, urged its members to continue the industrial strike that began on February 1.
The union revealed in a statement that the decision to ultimately call off the strike was made during a meeting on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, with members of the government and the National Labour Commission (NLC).
The union’s national executive council had an emergency meeting on Thursday and came to the conclusion that it needed to follow the NLC’s order to halt the strike in order to have more talks with the administration.
“The National Executive Council (NEC) of Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) had an emergency meeting today 15th February 2024, in Accra and a resolution was passed, that the ongoing strike should be suspended and engage with Government as directed.
“Given the above, we wish to announce that the ongoing strike action is suspended with immediate effect.”
Below is the full statement.
The Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) of the public universities in Ghana declared an indefinite strike on February 1st 2024, leadership subsequently directed all members to continue the strike action on 12th February 2024, to press home our demands.
The leadership of TEWU-GH was invited by the National Labour Commission (NLC) on 14th February 2024, in attendance from Government representatives was the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC).
After a series of discussions with the National Labour Commission and the government, NLC directed the union to suspend the strike action and engage the Government to resolve the issue of the vehicle maintenance allowance to our members.
As we are all aware, the government denied some of our members the vehicle maintenance allowance payment which compelled the union to embark on an indefinite strike action.
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) had an emergency meeting today 15th February 2024, in Accra and a resolution was passed, that ongoing strike should be suspended and engage with the Government as directed.
In view of the above, we wish to announce that the ongoing strike action is suspended with immediate effect.
All local executives are requested to disseminate this information/directives to their rank and file for compliance.
Leadership wish to thank all members for their tireless support during this industrial action, for your support we shall be treated with dignity to improve our working conditions in the public university campuses.
Thank you
Long Live TEWU-GH on the university campuses in Ghana.
Thank you.
