The Labour Division of the Accra High Court has thrown out the application filed by the National Labour Commission against the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
The application was for an injunction against the industrial Action that UTAG had embarked upon since August 2, 2021, over their accusation of the Akufo Addo administration refusing to indulge them on their call for better conditions of service.
The court, presided over by Justice Frank Rockson Aboadwe, was forced to throw out the application because the government had pleaded profusely with UTAG to call off their industrial action and UTAG had obliged.
When the case was called, Yehoda Kotey for the NLC told that court that, “We wish to put on record that we are not party to the agreement between the applicant and respondent in the matter. However, in the light of the matters that have been agreed on in terms of the Memorandum of Understanding which was signed between them, the applicant (NLC) here is discontinuing the action subject to the respondent’s agreeing to call off the strike and the court further directions.”
In his response, counsel for UTAG Kwesi Keli Dela-Taa confirmed that “It is true that the parties met and we agreed that in the best interest of the country, it will no longer be necessary to find the solution to the impasse in the court.”
The Deputy Minister of employment and labour relations Bright Wireko-Brobbey described the agreement as a win-win situation.
On Wednesday, the lecturers agreed, they will suspend their strike of about a fortnight and go back to class because the government had agreed to address their concerns.