Spokesperson for the Education Service, Kwasi Kwarteng, says the choice of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to suspend their strike still holds, in spite of the dismissal of same by a few chapters.
Concurring to him, the voting by the University of Ghana (UG) and University of Education, Winneba (UEW) chapters against the suspension of their strike does not invalidate the prior choice by their national body.
“Indeed in spite of the fact that the two have voted ‘no’, it truly does not influence the position of NEC. What right now stands presently is that no college in Ghana is on strike, unless of course there's another union. But so distant as we are concerned, when it comes to the open colleges, all teachers beneath UTAG have suspended their strike,” he stressed.
Talking in an meet on Prime Morning on Thursday, February 24, Kwasi Kwarteng clarified that “for there to be a switch choice, NEC will have to be compelled to vote in a distinctive way where larger part will say ‘we are now not suspending the strike’.”
“You may oppose this idea with the choice of NEC which is what the College of Ghana and the College of Instruction, Winneba illustrated amid their votes but it truly does not invalidate the choice of NEC,” he told Prime Morning Have, Emefa Adeti.
“In the event that you see at the structure of UTAG, vis-à-vis their NEC being the ultimate choice making body of the union, what happens is that when NEC makes a choice, the larger part choice is official. You have got approximately 15 UTAG teach, what we required to create a really concrete choice may be a larger part choice of 8 of them.”
Mr. Kwarteng famous that the government will continue to lock in other chapters of UTAG with the trust of finishing the stalemate and getting all lecturers to return to the classroom.
He uncovered that government will be assembly the administration of UTAG nowadays, February 24 to start engagements.
“I take this medium to clarify to our guardians that in the event that you have got your ward within the College of Ghana or College of Instruction, the truth that their lecturers voted ‘no’ does not cruel they are on strike, they are still working which is the choice of NEC,” he guaranteed.
On Wednesday, February 23, the College of Ghana (UG) department of the College Instructors Affiliation of Ghana (UTAG), voted against a choice by the National Official Committee of the Affiliation to suspend its nationwide strike.
‘No open college is on strike, UTAG lecturers have suspended their strike’ – Instruction Service
Comes about of UTAG-UG’s votes on suspension of strike
In a count result marked by the Appointive Commissioner of the chapter, Dr. Blameless Lawson, 596 UTAG individuals voted against the suspension of the strike; whereas a few 127 others voted to acknowledge the choice by the National Official Committee of UTAG to suspend the strike.
This implies that out of the overall of 723 UTAG-UG individuals who voted, 82.4% need the strike to continue, whereas 17.6% need scholarly work to continue.
Based on the result of the vote, scholarly work still remains on hold at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Additionally, lecturers of the University of Education, Winneba have rejected the suspension of the mechanical activity.
Be that as it may, lecturers at the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Innovation (KNUST), University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Advancement Considers (UDS) and the Ghana Founded of News coverage (GIJ) are set to start scholarly work on Monday, February 28.
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