Bolgatanga TUTAG And TUSAAG Call Off Strike
The Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) chapter of the Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) and Technical University Senior Administrators’ Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) have called off their one-week-old strike.
In a joint statement dated August 31, the two Associations said the call-off takes effect on Friday, September 1, 2023.
This was after separate meetings were held by the two Associations on Thursday.
“These meetings were held to deliberate on the consensus reached at the meeting held on August 29 between TUTAG and TUSAAG on one hand and the University Management on the other with the Governing Council as the mediator.”
The meeting concluded with the decision to have the strike called off.
The Associations’ branch in Bolgatanga laid down their tools on August 25, 2023, with complaints that the vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Samuel Alnaa, was seeking to vary portions of their members’ retirement benefits.
They held that the action of the VC violated Technical Universities Act (2026), Act 922 as amended.
“We strongly reject our Vice Chancellor’s absurd interpretation of our Conditions of Service where he seeks to departmentalise the payment of our retirement benefits for our retirees by paying only three months’ salary for the number of years served under the Polytechnic and then one month salary for every year served effective 2031,” a part of the concerns as captured in their statement last week said according to GNA.
