UTAG in August agreed to suspend a strike action over poor salary conditions after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with government to pave way for a month of negotiation. However, following the expiration of the one-month agreed period for negotiations, UTAG in a press release dated September 22, 2021, indicated that government failed to come through as promised for the negotiation. “In 2013, the monthly take home for an entry point university teacher, was a cedi equivalent of USD 2,084." “In the course of the negotiations UTAG demonstrated with empirical evidence that, Ghanaian University lecturers were poorly paid compared to their counterparts in poor countries like Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone. “The question is, how did the politician become more important than the teacher and when did the work of the politician and the article 71 officer holder, become more difficult to warrant better conditions of service, than the teacher who taught them?

Source: GhanaWeb September 24, 2021 15:56 UTC