UG senior staff, TEWU threaten to strike over unpaid market premiums

The Senior Staff Association and the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union at the University of Ghana have declared their intention to go on strike if the university’s management does not disburse outstanding Interim Market Premium arrears for certain staff by December 13.

Despite exhausting various avenues, including legal recourse, to prompt the university’s management to disburse the overdue payments covering the period from 2010 to 2018, the association laments that all efforts have been in vain.

In an interview with journalists, Isaac Donkor, the National Chairman of the Association, emphasized their conviction that resorting to a strike is their best recourse to compel the university’s management to promptly address and settle the lingering arrears.

“The court ordered that the university should pay the market premium to the staff but we have been battling with them since 2018 and they are still not paying us and we have taken the matter to the National Labour Commission and about three different timelines were given and they missed all the three timelines.”

“For now, we have no other option because our members are chasing us, and we have to listen to them because this money ought to have been paid long ago and the value of that money is already gone and so we have given them up to December 13 to pay us and if nothing is done, we are going to lay down our tools.”