Workers Unions at the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) has threatened to embark on an industrial action on Monday, August 2, 2021.
This follows a decision by the Ghana Tertiary Education Council (GTEC) to migrate the staff of the SDD-UBIDS and another unto the Controller and Accountant General Department’s payroll, which the unions take exception to.
In an interview with Info Radio, the Secretary of University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Elijah Yendaw stated that the move by GTEC will decrease the allowances of staffs of the affected universities, if succeeded.
He noted that it will also mean a denigration of the staff which takes an adverse toll on the morale of the workers.
He called on traditional rulers, ministers and opinion leaders in the Upper West Region to intervene in the matter, which he alleged is an attempt to catalog the universities as “Category B”.
The President of the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), Mr. Mu-een Abdulai also regretted the lack of infrastructure at the university which government should have more concerned about.
He said the university has not been given a seed capital to operate, leaving the University to contend with a big challenge of infrastructure deficit.
The workers unions at the SDD-UBIDS namely, University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU) and Senior Staff Association - Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) collectively are said to lay down their tools on Monday, August 2, 2021 should government fail to stop the GTEC from such “premature act”.
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