NLC Tells TUTAG To End Strike -With Promise Of New Pay Grade By 29th January

The National Labor Commission (NLC) this afternoon convinced members of the Technical Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) to end their indefinite strike with a promise that the government is working to sort out their grievances.

In a closed-door meeting with the leadership of TUTAG at the NLC office, the lecturers were promised that the allowances which they are demanding will be paid them in the coming weeks, while the bigger issue of they not being paid as much as their counterparts in the traditional public universities will also be sorted out.

Whatsup News has heard that the government will migrate all Technical university lecturers on to the public universities single spine salary structure by 29th January.

TUTAG declared an indefinite strike effective January 6, 2020, the second in less than six months in protest of the non-payment of commensurate allowances due its members following the conversion of polytechnics to technical universities.

The strike by TUTAG came at a time that the Technical Universities Senior Staff Association of Ghana (TUSSAG) had also declared an indefinite strike to press home demand for migration of technical university lecturers onto the same pay grade as lecturers of public universities.

This afternoon, the NLC had promised TUTAG that the migration on to the single spine salary would be affected, this was before the NLC would meet with the leadership of TUSAG, which had similarly been summoned by the NLC.

The government in 2016, upgraded its polytechnics into universities and has since had polytechnic lecturers, upgrade their teaching to the level of universities. However, commensurate salary upgrades have not happened.