TUSAAG declares nationwide strike from January 8

Senior Administrators of the various technical universities in Ghana have announced an impending nationwide strike to commence on January 8, 2024. The Technical University Senior Administrators’ Association of Ghana, TUSAAG, announced the decision in a statement released on New Year’s Day.

According to the association, the action is necessitated by the blatant non-compliance by some technical universities to the agreed Conditions of Service (CoS). TUSAAG said the management of the Accra Technical University (ATU) and three others failed to “comply fully with the roll-over of the retirement date to the end of the academic year”.

It said this is in contravention of Article 14(b) and Article 34 of the Conditions of Service. Article 14(b) states that “A Senior Member shall normally retire from the service of the Technical University at the end of the academic year in which he attains the compulsory retiring age, currently sixty (60)”.

Article 34 says, “An employee of the University shall retire from the service of the University at the end of the academic year in which he attains the prescribed retiring age”.

According to TUSAAG, Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), Sunyani Technica University (STU), Koforidua Technical University (KTU) and ATU breached the terms.

Based on the violations by the four universities, TUSAAG thus “declares a nationwide strike effective Monday 8th January 2024, in demand for full compliance with the conditions of the roll-over of the retirement date, as outlined in the referred portions of the Conditions of Service”.

As a result, all services including “services for both fresh and continuing students” shall be halted. Services to “Units, Sections, Departments, Faculties, Centres, Directorates, Halls of Residence, Finance, ICT Services, physical development, facilities maintenance services, as well as all other main and general services” will not be available.

Also, “The strike action shall be in full force, until with the conditions of the roll-over of the retirement date, as outlined in the Conditions of Service, are wholly implemented by the Management of all Technical Universities, and same, fully applied to affected staff of the Cape Coast Technical University and elsewhere.”

Read the full statement of TUSAAG here.