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UTAG STRIKE: UCC LIKELY TO SHUTDOWN OVER 21-DAY RULE

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The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is likely to shutdown following week after 21 days of non-scholastic movement due to the mechanical activity by the UniversityTeachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).



This is often in agreement with the Acts and Statutes administering the University, which states that the overseeing chamber should close down the University after 21 days of non-academic activity.


Lecturers in open colleges within the nation have been on strike since January 10, this year,


over what UTAG calls “worsening” conditions of benefit.



Professor Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Vice-Chancellor, UCC, prior this week, communicated fear the College might shutdown over non-scholarly exercises in the event that the circumstance was not tended to.


Checks by the Ghana News Agency demonstrate that a few crunch gatherings are continuous at the college on the way forward [a conceivable shutdown.]


Other public universities without the ’21-day’ run the show are not obliged to shutdown. Their scholarly sheets can, in any case, take that choice for financial or regulatory purposes.



UTAG individuals on all public college campuses are on strike to constrain the Government to reestablish the conditions of service concurred upon in 2012.


The 2012 conditions of service pegged the Basic also Advertise Premium of a teacher at $2,084.42.


UTAG has complained that the current course of action has diminished its individuals’ basic premiums

to $997.84.



There's open objection that the strike, which is in its third week, seem lead to the shutdown of all open colleges.

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