Following the strike declared by members of the Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana, (TUTAG), GBC NEWS visited the Accra Technical University to ascertain the impact of the strike on Academic work.
Indications are that members have not received any formal information on the strike and therefore not joined the said strike by TUTAG members.
GBC’s reporters who visited the campus report that brisk teaching and learning is ongoing.
In an interaction with the Public Affairs Director at the University, Mrs. Fauster Kodua revealed that there is an ongoing meeting with members of TUTAG to deliberate on the issue.
A visit to the Accra Technical University campus shows that the strike by TUTAG members is not been adhered to.
Most lecturers were seen in lecture halls teaching. Though some students were seen loitering around campus, others were seen studying in halls.
The Director of Public Affairs of the Accra Technical University who spoke off record, Fauster Kilian Kodua, said those students walking around are either done with their lectures or students are not having serious interactive class.
She also confirmed that management is in a meeting with TUTAG Members to deliberate on the issue.
For now, the fate of academic work now hinges on a meeting between TUTAG and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to discuss the conditions of service of TUTAG members. The National Labour Commission has also scheduled the leadership of TUTAG to appear before it on Wednesday, June 15, to be heard and possibly have their concerns addressed.
Meanwhile, TUTAG branch at the Cape Coast Technical University has joined their colleagues to embark on a sit-down strike to press home their demand to be placed under the Public University Salary Structure.
In a related development, Students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU), are appealing to Government to treat as urgent, the grievances of Technical University Teachers so that they will return to the classroom.
According to them, the effect of such actions on students cannot be quantified.
Speaking in an interview with GBC’s Twin City Radio in Takoradi, most of the students said already they have a backlog of activities to catch up with, due to hours lost last year in the wake of COVID-19.
