Strike

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Doctors Threaten Strike Over Unpaid Arrears
31 Jan

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Doctors Threaten Strike Over Unpaid Arrears

wontumionlineNews,
Members of the Korle Bu Doctors Association (KOSA) are threatening to withdraw their services to the outpatient department and elective surgeries over unpaid arrears. The strike is expected to commence from February 6 to 10, should management fail to come up with clear timelines for payment of 13th-month salary arrears. “Beginning 30th of January to 5th February, 2023, KODA expects management to come out with clear timelines for the payment of the arrears and to make this payment a centralized one instead of departmental after all, every payment goes into a central pool,” they explained. “If nothing is received, KODA…
Read More
National Labour Commission Directs CETAG To Call Off Strike
27 Jan

National Labour Commission Directs CETAG To Call Off Strike

wontumionlineNews, , ,
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed the Colleges of Education Teachers’ Association of Ghana (CETAG) to call off its ongoing strike and return to negotiations with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC). The NLC has given the FWSC and CETAG a two-week period to meet, negotiate and bring to finality the issues in dispute. The two parties are to report back to the NLC on Wednesday, February 08, 2023. The directive was contained in a statement signed by Dr Bernice Welbeck, Director of Administration and Human Resource NLC, after the FWSC and CETAG appeared before the commission on…
Read More
Gyampo Hints Of Labour Shutdown Over Debt Exchange Programme
15 Dec

Gyampo Hints Of Labour Shutdown Over Debt Exchange Programme

wontumionlineBusiness
The Secretary of the University of Ghana branch University Teachers Association of Ghana (UG-UTAG), Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo, has hinted of a massive strike action by Organised Labour over the recently announced Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. He said since government has gone out of its way to announce the Programme without recourse to Organised Labour, they will also proceed on strike to reject any attempt to touch their pensions. He expressed these sentiments on TV3‘s Midday Live on Wednesday, December 14. “This one it is going to be a strike of [organised] labour,” he hinted. He said it is becoming too much on the part of…
Read More
TUTAG Declares Indefinite Strike
18 Nov

TUTAG Declares Indefinite Strike

wontumionlineNews, ,
The leadership of the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has declared an indefinite strike action over concerns about conditions of service. TUTAG last week threatened to embark on industrial action if the government fails to honour the Codified Conditions of Service of members, which have been outstanding since 2016. In a statement issued on Friday, November 18, TUTAG said issues raised in an earlier letter addressed to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and copied to the Minister of Education, Minister of Finance, Chairman of the National Labour Commission (NLC) and the Chief Executive Officer of the Fair…
Read More