The Executive Councils of the Senior Staff Association (SSA)-UoG, Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) and the Teachers Educational and Workers’ Union (TEWU) at the University for Development Studies (UDS) have declared an indefinite industrial strike.
According to a statement issued on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, and co-signed by the President of GAUA Dr Iddrisu M Tanko, SSA Chairman Zakaria Mohammed, TEWU Chairman Sule Abdul-Rahaman, the strike was due to the university’s “Failure to pay July 2022 salaries of staff on time without any communication to staff, failure to engage all the relevant stakeholders (Unions) in what is believed and considered to be an ambush Migration of the Salaries of staff to the Controller and Accountant General Mechanised payroll system without any agreed document (MoU) from Controller as agreed in the previous engagement.”
The statement added that “the persistent disregard for administrative procedures that naturally affects unity, transparency, and peaceful institutional environment to propel the attainment of the UDS vision and mission, staff welfare and institutional wellbeing and the penchant of leadership for disrespect and apparent dislike and disinterest in working with Labour unions to drive the developmental agenda” of the university.
Therefore, angry staff of the university have with immediate effect withdrawn of all their services until further notice.