{"id":14196,"date":"2014-04-18T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2014-04-18T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T08:37:43","slug":"utag-calls-off-intended-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=14196","title":{"rendered":"UTAG calls off intended strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has decided to hold back its planned strike until the expiration of the negotiation period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This follows a meeting on April 16 with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and some representatives of Government, including Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang;\u00a0 Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa; and the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Dr Samuel Awinkene Atintono, UTAG National Secretary, said: \u201cThe association is going to respect the directive by the NLC to both parties to negotiate and report to the Commission on May 14.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UTAG\u2019s decision to go on strike was in respect of Government&#8217;s non-payment of book and research allowances.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has decided to hold back its planned strike until the expiration of the negotiation period. This follows a meeting on April 16 with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and some representatives of Government, including Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang;\u00a0 Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}