The Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) has with immediate effect, suspended its two-week-long industrial action over the government’s failure to pay vehicle maintenance allowances to its members.
The union on Monday, February 12, called on its members to continue their strike which began on February 1, despite holding a crunch meeting with government officials on Friday, February 9.
However, TEWU in a U-turn has reverted its initial call following a meeting with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and representatives of the government on Wednesday, February 14, 2024.
“The National Executive Council (NEC) of Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) had an emergency meeting today 15th February 2024, in Accra and a resolution was passed, that the ongoing strike should be suspended and engage with Government as directed.
After a series of discussions with the National Labour Commission and the government, NLC directed the union to suspend the strike action and engage the Government to resolve the issue of the vehicle maintenance allowance to our members.”
Thus, The statement said, “Given the above, we wish to announce that the ongoing strike action is suspended with immediate effect.”
A subsequent emergency meeting by the union’s national executive council on Thursday concluded that it must heed the NLC’s directive for suspending the strike to make way for further engagements with the government.
Below is the full statement.
The Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) of the public universities in Ghana declared an indefinite strike on February 1st 2024, leadership subsequently directed all members to continue the strike action on 12th February 2024, to press home our demands.
The leadership of TEWU-GH was invited by the National Labour Commission (NLC) on 14th February 2024, in attendance from Government representatives was the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC).
After a series of discussions with the National Labour Commission and the government, NLC directed the union to suspend the strike action and engage the Government to resolve the issue of the vehicle maintenance allowance to our members.
As we are all aware, the government denied some of our members the vehicle maintenance allowance payment which compelled the union to embark on an indefinite strike action.
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) had an emergency meeting today 15th February 2024, in Accra and a resolution was passed, that ongoing strike should be suspended and engage with the Government as directed.
In view of the above, we wish to announce that the ongoing strike action is suspended with immediate effect.
All local executives are requested to disseminate this information/directives to their rank and file for compliance.
Leadership wish to thank all members for their tireless support during this industrial action, for your support we shall be treated with dignity to improve our working conditions in the public university campuses.
Thank you
Long Live TEWU-GH on the university campuses in Ghana.
Thank you.
