Workers’ Unions at the C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS) have resumed their industrial strike action to drum home their concerns. The Unions, University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), Senior Staff Association-Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) and the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU), said the resumption of the strike was necessitated by the failure of Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD), the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and Management of CKT-UTAS to adhere to the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) that was signed by the Unions and Government on the 17th of August, 2021.
They made this known in a statement signed by the CKT-UTAS UTAG President Dr Jonas Bugase, CKT-UTAS SSA-UoG Chairman Mr. Fatai Usman, CKT-UTAS GAUA President Mrs Juliana Agalga and the CKT-UTAS TEWU Chairman Mr Ayuu Samuel Avipio and copied to a1radioonline.com.
According to the statement, the MoU signed between the Unions and government stipulated conditions that were to be met by the CAGD before the migration of the workers unto the CAGD-IPPD2.
“These Conditions included the installation of an IPPD2 application software on the various Campuses, the training of personnel of the Finance Directorates of both campuses on the use of the IPPD2 system: The need for CAGD to undertake a three-month test run with existing payroll data, parallel to the present payroll systems of the individual campuses so as to rectify all discrepancies; and the need for the status quo on all Campuses to remain as directed by NLC until these key conditions are met,” the statement disclosed.
The Workers’ Unions through the statement said that “four months down the lane, none of these has happened on the CKT UTAS and SDD-UBIDS”.
Additionally, the statement mentioned the delay in salaries saying “it was also agreed that the staff of CKT-UTAS and SDD UBIDS was to continue to receive their salary through University Development Studies DS) until the conditions precedent are met. This salary payment arrangement has since been problematic. UDS often pay their staff at the end of each month while the workers of CKT-UTAS and SDD UBIDS are paid virtually three (3) weeks into the following month. As at today (16th of November, 2021), some staff have still not received their October salaries. We wish to state that, the protracted delay in paying salaries has brought excruciating hardship to staff and their families and it has generated simmering tensions in the University”.
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