Members
of the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) at the Kwame Nkrumah
Unoverity of Science and Technology (KNUST) have started an exercise that may
see them staying out of post from Tuesday.
The
industrial action is in protest of non-payment of some outstanding allowances
for the past 30 months.
The
workers are clad in red shirts and arm bands to signify their displeasure.
This
comes on the heels of the recent strike to the University Teachers Association
of Ghana (UTAG) which disrupted academic activities.
Chairman
of the local TEWU, Charles Arthur says management of the University has been
slow in responding to the welfare of the workers.
He
said management for the past two to three years “have denied us our request to
pay our overtime arrears, our hospital allowance arrears and also promotion;
they have brought in something which is alien to our promotion procedures, then
the placement of our members on the single spine [salary structure]”.
Mr.
Arthur explains the action has been taken in the consideration of essential
services and students who are due to start end of semester exams in few days.
“Now
we’ve allowed the essential services to continue going on depending on the fact
that they [management] will hear whatever we are saying so that within shortest
possible time they’ll listen to us. If they refuse, we’ll have no option than
to withdraw all of them”, he warned.
Full
withdrawal of services will affect service delivery at the Tech Hospital and
sanitation on campus.
Story
by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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