The President of the University Students Association of Ghana says among other things students are considering setting out on a arrangement of challenges to encourage the government and the National Labour Commission (NLC) to resolve the concerns by striking lecturers.
Talking on Best Story on Monday, Philip Christian Armah, clarified that the authority of USAG has as of now locked in required stakeholders counting lecturers, authorities at NLC and the Education Ministry on the have to be compelled to have lecturers return to school.
He expressed that in spite of the fact that nothing appears to have come out of those arrangements, they are holding more discussion, but in the event that those fall flat as well, understudies would got to too express their disappointment.
“So we have turn to arrangements ever since the strike activity started. We have been locks in all the pertinent stakeholders – from the UTAG national official to the NLC, and over the past three weeks it looks as on the off chance that no one is tuning in,†Mr Armah told Evans Mensah, have of the appear.
“We as authority from the SRC President level along with the national official officers which shape the national official committee of USAG, we have settled that in the event that we do not listen anything positive this week, the last resort must take us to composed arrangement of challenge in our different campuses. We wouldn’t bashful absent from that.â€
His comment comes after Open colleges over the nation are at chance of a mass shutdown after the College Instructors Affiliation of Ghana’s (UTAG) strike entered its third successive week.
On Monday, January 10, the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), set out on a nationwide strike, over destitute conditions of service.
Concurring to the embattled lecturers, the government has fizzled to respect its guarantees to them, in spite of a arrangement of gatherings and arrangements, towards the change of their working conditions.
UTAG, in this manner, expressed that they will as it were return to the classroom in case all their concerns are tended to.
UTAG needs the government to reevaluate the increment of its yearly investigate stipend to a more practical sum “as this is often basic to our investigate yield, advancement and eventually national advancement.â€
They moreover need the 2013 Intervals Showcase Premium (Devil) of 114% on basic compensation reestablished.
In the interim, Mr Armah says numerous understudies have been cleared out baffled whereas others have too cleared out for their different homes after the strike amplified into its third week.
“We are too not yielding. We have chosen to meet once more with the stakeholders and had a assembly with the Priests of Instruction and Business. We know that they got to get the work done,†he said.
He expressed that the Education Minister guaranteed they are locks in UTAG and they are exceptionally confident that the issues would be settled.
Mr Armah included that “we do not require any pardons from anybody. No one gave us pardons when the time was right for us to pay our admissions and settlement expenses. On the off chance that our guardians have constrained TO paid these at that point the correct thing must be done, we are not getting to sit down for colleges to be closed down.â€
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