{"id":141418,"date":"2015-08-07T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=141418"},"modified":"2015-08-07T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:23:19","slug":"govt-delays-triggered-our-strike-utag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=141418","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t delays triggered our strike &#8211; UTAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) are accusing government of not being proactive in addressing their concerns which they say has led to the indefinite strike called by members of the association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;6n4aqoosbb0SFTLNOr4EPM8291d2jzKU&#8221;]UTAG on Wednesday announced an <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>indefinite strike<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0over the non-payment of their book and research allowance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Deputy General Secretary of UTAG, Samuel Atintonu said the decision followed the inability of government to respond to their demands which have been tendered in since February 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLast year we got to this point and we knew that we didn\u2019t want to get to where we are today\u2026 you do not wait when there is a strike then you say you have written to the minister of finance\u00a0 asking for the process to start. For us as UTAG members, the executive secretary of the NCTE will normally write to the various universities to ask them to start to prepare the list that is what we wanted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the ministry of education on Thursday said it <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/06\/utag-strike-ministry-already-working-on-payment-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">had initiated the process<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to pay the book and research allowances adding that it had\u00a0among other things, requested the Auditor General to audit the claims of the various beneficiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Mr. Atintonu downplayed a possible response from the finance ministry to the request by the education ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am not quite sure they have been given a firm response from the ministry of as we talk now. So merely writing a letter and as far as we are concerned, we do not have that in our institutions and we are about to start another academic year that is where the difficulty is and this is where our members are on us that, we have finished 2014\/2015 we do not want to start 2015\/2016 and then get into that difficulty again,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) are accusing government of not being proactive in addressing their concerns which they say has led to the indefinite strike called by members of the association. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;6n4aqoosbb0SFTLNOr4EPM8291d2jzKU&#8221;]UTAG on Wednesday announced an indefinite strike\u00a0over the non-payment of their book and research allowance. 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