The Senior Staff Association-Universities of Ghana has served notice that it will also join in the strike by other sister teacher unions demanding a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA).
Like the other teacher unions which are already striking, they say their demand is to cushion them against the current economic hardships.
Those Unions comprise the Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana, and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union. Are demanding 20% COLA.
The national leadership, in a statement signed by its national President, Isaac Donkoh, and the National Secretary, Hector Owoahene-Acheampong, said that it has “observed with the greatest displeasure the failure of the government and the Management of Public Universities to implement agreements in their conditions of service.”
A resolution from its 16th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, which was held at KNUST in Kumasi on June 25, 2022, took note of the Association’s members’ worsening cost of living due to the rising cost of fuel, goods, and services, the introduction of new taxes, as well as the high rate of inflation.
“Government and the management of public universities have failed to address our concerns,” they contend.