Ghana’s university lecturers went on strike on Monday, demanding that a resolution that was passed three years ago concerning salary disparities be implemented.
The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) described the backtracking from a 2013 decision by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) as “unfair”, Ghana web reports.
The agreement between the lecturers and the FWSC was supposedly looking to “fix disparity in the salaries of both junior and senior staff members of public universities.”
TEWU said that the failure by the FWSC to deliver on its promise had forced them to take action, Joy News reported.
TEWU’s chairperson Peter Lumor said they were disappointed by the way their matter was being handled.
“Almost three years now, we go and just when we are making progress Fair Wages comes out with another development and we go back. In May 2015 Fair Wages, TEWU and Vice Chancellors Ghana met to demand that the distortions that have been recognised be addressed,” Lumor was quoted as saying.
He said the strike would be called off only if the commission met their demands.
